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1. EAP1016/3/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/1
Title:
A brass pointer [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A brass pointer, square in cross section and with a mantra engraved on the shaft. 92 cm long, decorated with attachments including trinkets, small bells, a piece of red thread, a ring, and an image of the Buddha. Such pointers are used by Lama Manipas to indicate key scenes depicted on a narrati...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/3/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/2
Title:
༄༅། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ནོར་བུ་བཟང་པོའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་བྱས་པ་ཐོས་ཆུང་ཡིད་ཀྱི་དགའ་སྟོན་ཞིས་བུ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། [Early 20th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
One page woodblock illustration taken from...Wylie: chos kyi rgyal po nor bu bzang po'i rnam thar phyogs bsgrigs byas pa thos chung yid kyi dga' ston zhis bu ba bzhugs so. The exemplary biography of Dharma King Norsang. The text itself was not digitised. This is a single woodblock printed illust...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
3 TIFF images

3. EAP1221/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/1
Title:
གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:
An astrological thangka. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting on cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Mounted on to brown cloth. Extent: One thangka. Size and dimensions of original material: 81 cm x 49 cm. The image area ( melong) is 63 x 29 cm. Condition of original material: Good ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5

4. EAP1221/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/2
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 29 x 18 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

5. EAP1221/1/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/3
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mat...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

6. EAP1221/1/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/4
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 32 x 4.5 x 4 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mater...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
38

7. EAP1221/1/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/3/5
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 x 11 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer ro...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3

8. EAP1221/4/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/4/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

9. EAP1221/4/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/4/2/2
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
4

10. EAP1221/4/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/4/2/3
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
2