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1. EAP1221/1/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/1/11
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script in black and red ink. A Vajra Vidharana purification ritual. A water purification and cleansing ritual undertaken through the deity Vajra Vidharana, practiced for the removal of co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

2. EAP1221/1/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/1/2/1
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
30

3. EAP1221/2/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/2/1/1
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A short amchi (Tibetan medical) text, part two of a series with eleven different subjects. The title of the text also refers to “water” so perhaps this is the central subject matter. སྐ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
8

4. EAP1221/8/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/9
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual off...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
72

5. EAP1221/18/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/2/3
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A large wooden printing block. Carved on one side only with three separate carvings. The two carvings at either end of the block are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. One is a demon figure with feet chained, the other an animal, probably a yak. The...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5

6. EAP1221/18/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/2/4
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A square shaped wooden printing block carved on two sides with circular shapes, each containing written mantras. The carvings are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. Extent: one wooden printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 16.5 c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

7. EAP1221/21/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/2
Title:
Two horns
Scope & Content:
Two animal horns. According to the owner, these are the horns of mythical creatures. Both coming from the realm of the nagas and originally from Tibet. Two rare and special objects, used for rituals and blessings. The twisted black horn, covered in leather, the horn of a "water horse" (water unic...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
12

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