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Project / Collection Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1016/3 Language Tibetan

1. EAP1016/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3
Title:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery near Dharamsala, India. An archive of objects, texts and Lama Mani thangkas which includes some modern copies of much older thangkas in the collection. The precise provenance of the individual items in the collection is undocumented and unknown but i...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
2296 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1
Title:
Objects [Late 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Five objects. This Series contains the following 5 Files: EAP1016/3/1/1: A brass pointer [Late 19th century] EAP1016/3/1/2: A green, red and yellow hat [Mid 20th century] EAP1016/3/1/3: A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme [Late 20t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
10 TIFF images

3. 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

4. EAP1016/3/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/3
Title:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme [Late 20th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme (Wylie ’Gyur med) from the Department of Religion and Culture, Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It explains that Buchen Gyurme came from Shelkar (Dingri) in Tibet and travelled widely in Tibet, performing a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
1 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3
Title:
Texts [Mid 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Twenty four texts. This Series contains the following 24 Files: EAP1016/3/3/1: འ་རི་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལོ་ཙྭ་འདས་ལོགས་པད་མ་ཆོ་ …. བདག་ལ་ ….. འིན་ལན་ རང་ཕྲིན་པར་བཀུར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུ་རྣམ་ཐར་ [Mid 19th century] EAP1016/3/3/2: ༄༅། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ནོར་བུ་བཟང་པོའི་རྣམ་...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
1706 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/3/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/1
Title:
འ་རི་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ལོ་ཙྭ་འདས་ལོགས་པད་མ་ཆོ་ …. བདག་ལ་ ….. འིན་ལན་ རང་ཕྲིན་པར་བཀུར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུ་རྣམ་ཐར་ [Mid 19th century]
Scope & Content:
The complete title is difficult to read because of darkening of the paper. Legible sections include: Wylie: ‘ ri phyi gnyis kyi lo tsva ‘das logs padma cho….bdag la…..i’n lan rang phrin par bkur ba’i lo rgyu rnam thar. A biographical text telling the story of the delok Padma (Pema) Choskyit, des...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
88 TIFF images

7. 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

8. EAP1016/3/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/3
Title:
༄༅། །ཆོས་རྒྱལ་དྲི་མེད་ཀུན་ལྡན་གྱི་མཛད་ཚུལ་རྒྱས་པ་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། [Early 20th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: chos rgyal dri med kun ldan gyi mdzad tshul rgyas pa mu tig phreng ba bzhugs so. The text on the title page is very hard to read. the wording here was suggested by Dechen Lundup. This is the story of Dharma King Drimed Kunden. A fuller translation might be: A Garland of Pearls, the extens...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
213 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/3/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/4
Title:
༄༅། །གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཀརྨ་ཆགས་མེད་ལ་གཤིན་རྗེ་ཆེས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པེའི་ཞལ་ནས་གསུངས་པའི་སྡིག་བཤགས་བཤུགས་སོ། ། [Early 20th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: grub thob karma chags med la gshin rje ches kyi rgyal pe'i zhal nas gsungs pa'i sdig bshags bshugs so. The speech of the Lord of Death to Drubtop Karma Chagmed. A woodblock printed text on thin handmade paper. A short text explaining how to confess sins. 24.75 cm x 7.5 cm. 2 folios 4 page...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/3/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/3/5
Title:
An offering prayer for tea [Early 20th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Single loose folio. An offering prayer for tea. 24.75 cm x 7.5 cm. It has a handwritten verso note detailing the eight stupas/chorten of Tibetan Buddhism. . Creation dates: Early to mid 20th Century. 70-120 years. Custodial history: A text donated to Dolma Ling nunnery by Buchen Gyurme. It prob...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century-Mid 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images