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1. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

2. EAP880/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/7
Title:
Correspondence
Scope & Content:
Personal and official correspondences. Original file reference: SPA/CO.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1875-1975
Extent:
4793 TIFF images

3. EAP927/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP927/1
Title:
Mongolian Academy of Sciences Collection
Scope & Content:
The predecessor of the current Mongolian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Sutras and Scripts came into existence in 1921, was renamed as Institutes of Sciences in 1930, Institute of Sciences and Education in 1957, and Academy of Sciences in 1960. Its scholars have always paid attention to t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Japanese, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1727-2009
Extent:
109999 TIFF images

4. EAP1221/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1
Title:
Dorje Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Dorje Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts and a single wedding speech text. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
1046

5. EAP1221/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1
Title:
Ritual texts
Scope & Content:
A series of thirty ritual texts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
962

6. EAP1221/1/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/1
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a Zhi Tro (ཞི་ཁྲོ་) ritual text. A ceremony commonly performed after the death of an individual and during the 49 days of the Bardo period prior to reincarnation. The Dangkhar ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
239

7. EAP1221/1/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/2
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified chowa ritual text. The chowa tradition is associated with the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Commonly with the PemaLing lineage (one of eight different Nyingma tra...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
60

8. EAP1221/1/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/3
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text including "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, and drawings (རི་མོ) of thorma (གཏོར་མ།) which are a kind of sculptural dough offering (མཆོད་པ) to the deities, widely used in chowa tantric rituals.Ex...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

9. EAP1221/1/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/4
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in black and red ink in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is a text for a ritual to protect against witches (དྲི་མོ) The title དྲི་མོ་དགུ་སྐོར་བཞུགས་སོ། refers to a family of nine (sister) witches / enchantresse...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
8

10. EAP1221/1/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/5
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is the text for a rite to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy/ soul / spirit of a deceased person) back into the body when ill or when some other problem has caused the bla to leav...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
16

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