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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/13
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a brown cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a liberation text. A short ritual saving the life of an animal due to be slaughtered. The animal is beautified, its ears decorated with red col...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a dark blue cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. An unidentified astrological text. Extent: One book consisting of thirty nine folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 28 cm...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 81

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/1
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
Scope & Content:: A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 26 cm long. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough shapes made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Numerous carvings of human and humanoid figures and symbols. Extent: one dough mould. Size and dimensions of original material: 57.5cm x 4 cm x 3 cm. Condition of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 35

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/4
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/12
Title:: Urgyen Tsewang Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection Urgyen Tsewang. A small collection of medical texts. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room of Urgyen Tsewang (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 299

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/12/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, in red and black ink. An unidentified short amchi medical text entitled ཟིན་ཐིགས་བསམ་འཕེལ་ནོར་བུ་བཞུགས་སོ The title is difficult to translate: ཟིན་ཐིགས is probably a spelling mistake. The si...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/12/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A substantial but untitled amchi medical text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of 144 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 19 cm x 8.5 cm. Condition of origina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 283

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13
Title:: Gatuk Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Gatuk Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 834

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