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1. EAP1016/1/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/8
Title:
A statue of the future Buddha (Maitreya) [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A statue of the future Buddha (Maitreya). Jampa. བྱམས་པ་ (Wylie byams pa) or Lord Maitreya Jampé Gönpo བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་ (Wylie byams pa'i mgon po). 10 x 16.5 cm . Creation dates: Early 18th century. Date suggested by current owner. Custodial history: An item owned by the family of Buchen Pema Ts...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
5 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/1/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/2
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 74 x 108 cm (max) with image area (Melong) approx 63 x 83 cm (max). A very simple plain cloth surround with more recent repairs to the top section. Very substantial paint loss. Also creasing and substantial staining thr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
20 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/1/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/4
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 118 x 68 cm. A very simple patterned cloth surround. Substantial colour fading throughout and several holes and tears. Some paint loss.Very simple drawings of a small number of illustrative scenes. Central figure of Che...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
19 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/1/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/5
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 101 x 64 cm with the image area (melong) size 52 x 39 cm. A very simple and plain cloth surround. Substantial staining and some paint loss and holes in the canvas due to substantial creasing. Central figure of Chenresig...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
16 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/2
Title:
༄༅། རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མེད་ཀུན་ལྡན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགསོ།། [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugaso (wylie transliteration of the actual title, which is a slighly shortened form of the more commonly found title rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugs so). The biography of (Dharma) King Drimed Kunden. This is one of the Indian Jātak...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
101 TIFF images

6. 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

7. EAP1016/3/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ (Wylie gZugs kyi nyi ma). Size including the cloth surround 162 x 85.5cm. Width at bottom is 93cm. Image (melong) size 77.5 x 54cm. Central figure of Buddha Shakyamuni. Finely detailed and in very good condition overall wit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
83 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/3/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/12
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang ནོར་བཟང (Wylie Nor bzang). Size including the cloth surround 134 x 81. Image (melong) size 69.5 x 54cm. Age 100-150 years. Finely detailed and with some paint loss, creasing and darkening of the overall image from use. Central figure of Buddh...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
23 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/3/2/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/13
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa རྒྱལ་བཟའ་བལ་བཟའ (Wylie rGyal bza’ bal bza’). Also known as Gyelmo gonjor རྒྱལ་མོ་གོང་འབྱོར (Wylie rgyal mo gong 'byor) Size including the cloth surround 148 x 89cm Width at bottom 91 cm. Image (melong) size 84 x 58.5 cm. Richly detailed. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
29 TIFF images

10. 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

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