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032-004549051 Subject Astrology Level [40] File

1. EAP1221/10/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/9
Title:
གབ་རྩེ་་
Scope & Content:
An astrological thangka/ divination chart, used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates for an individual, depending on their day, month and year of birth. Made from handmade paper coated in a wheat paste gesso ground. Stored in a wooden tube with copper end pieces. Image shows zodiacal ye...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

2. EAP1221/10/2/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/10
Title:
རྡེའུ
Scope & Content:
A cloth pouch and assorted beans of three colours: black, white and red-brown. The beans are used with the astrological thangka, a counting tool to assist with divination. Extent: One pouch and numerous beans. Size and dimensions of original material: Pouch is 15 cm x 7 cm.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

3. EAP1221/10/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/12
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould, carved with numerous figures and symbols: human and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and symbols, nagas. The figures and symbols are pressed into ritual dough offerimgs (torma) during tantric ceremonies. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimensions of original...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
37

4. EAP1221/10/1/14

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/14
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological (horary astrological) text, a precious compendium summarising the Tibetan system of horary astrology, (Tib. འབྲས་རྩིས་ Wylie 'bras rtsis ) a system used for progno...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
57

5. EAP1221/10/1/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/20
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An unidentified astrological text. སྐར་འབྲས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 32.5 cm x 7 cm. The p...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
4

6. EAP1221/10/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/23
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text for prognosis/ prophesy. སྐར་འབྲས་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of three folios. Size and dimensions of original material: E...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

7. EAP1221/10/1/25

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/25
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An text about the 27 little stars in the Tibetan astrological system སྐར་རུ་ཆུང་ཡོད།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of six folios. Size and dimensions of original material:...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
12

8. EAP1221/10/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/27
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Chapter nine of a substantial astrological text with many chapters. རྣམ་ཐར་གྲུབ་མཐའི་རྩིས་གཞུང་མན་ངག་སྐབས་དགུ་དང་དུས་ཀྱིས་སྦྱོར་བ་མེ་ལོང་མངོན་ཤེས་མིའི་ལུགས་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
8

9. EAP1221/10/1/37

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/1/37
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified cloth bound astrological text. བལ་མོ་ལྡིང་བསྐོར་གྱི་རྩིས་བཞི།. Extent: One book consisting of thirty six folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
75

10. EAP1221/10/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/10/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single large figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with detail: zodiacal year signs, astrological trigrams, animal figures and mantra text. Ca...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3