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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/8
Title:: དུང་ཆོས་དང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཟུངས་ཐག
Scope & Content:: A small conch shell, with miniature vajra and mantra thread, used together in rituals. Extent: One conch with vajra and mantra thread. Size and dimensions of original material: Conch is 7.5 cm x 5 cm. Vajra is 5,5 cm x 1,5 cm. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/9
Title:: མེ་ལོང་།
Scope & Content:: A brass mirror and attached modern katak. Extent: One mirror and cloth. Size and dimensions of original material: 11.6 cm diameter and 0.5 cm deep. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/10
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་དྲིལ་བུ།
Scope & Content:: A bell and vajra / dorje. Two ritual items stored and used together. Extent: One bell and one vajra. Size and dimensions of original material: Bell is 17 cm x 9cm in diameter, the vajra 12 cm long x 2.5 cm wide. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/11
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 24

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/12
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 33

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/13
Title:: གབ་རྩེ།
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka / divination chart used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates, depending on a person's day, month and year of birth. Painted on to cloth on a wheat paste gesso ground. Mounted on to black cloth.The thangka is stored in a painted tube. Extent: One astrological than...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 9

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/13/2/14
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 37

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A flat wooden dough mould carved on one side only. It has several carvings of astrological symbols and a line of humanoid, animal headed creatures: shapes and figures that are pressed into dough offerings (torma) during specific tantric rituals. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimension...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 30

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ་
Scope & Content:: A beautiful and complex astrological thangka / divination chart used to calculate auspicious days for important events in a person's life, depending on the day, month and year of their birth. Drawn on paper and mounted on to black cloth. Extent: One astrological thangka / divination chart. Size ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/1
Title:: པིར་རུ
Scope & Content:: Medical suction cups. A collection of five suction cups: two brass cones and three animal horn tips that used for "cupping" the technique of applying a vacuum to remove bad blood (black blood). The cup is applied to the skin for half an hour, the hole in the tip of the cup sealed for that time wi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

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