Subject: Death / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text with a decorated cover page. This text is for a ritual for the transference of consciousness (pho wa). Used primarily after death. This is a common ritual commissioned after the death...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/16
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A purification and liberation ritual conducted after a death, perhaps including the ritual use of bones, post-cremation. ༄༅། །བྱང་གྲོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཙུག་གཏོར་གྱི་བགྲུབས་ཐབས་སྙིང་པོ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཞེས་བ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 61

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/17
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on thick almost leather like, handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A funereal ritual conducted for the deceased when the body is left for sky burial or interred. The title mentions the thread cross (Tib. མདོས Wylie mdos) used as a ritual ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 15

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/1
Title:: གབ་རྩེ / རྩི་གབ་རྩེ་ཐང་ཀ་
Scope & Content:: A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra / blessing or perhaps a description but is very faded. Folded rather than rolled up. Used in ceremonies after the death of an individual but also in other cer...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/7
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink A bone ceremony undertaken on behalf of ordinary people by a chowa or lamas. Bones are gathered a few days after death from the cremation site. The ritual is undertaken i...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/8/18
Title:: [A series of several sets of letter written from Mannar to the Jaffna Bishop, mainly Mgr. Joulain. Some arranged series are written by various OMI priests, among others: S.J. Stanislaus; J.B. Baron; J. Francis; L. Rodrigo; A. Daurat. Including at the end an exercise books filled with handwritten draft sermons on death in French with notes in Tamil. (1907-1940)]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 unbound series of several sets containing 522 pages, including an exercise book. Size and dimensions of original material: H-35.8cm, W-22.4cm, D-0.5cm. Condition of original material: Dilapidated Condition.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1907/1940
Extent:: 72

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9/2
Title:: [A collection of filled forms showing yearly reports (period 1910-1950) and concerning Ecclesiastical Administration (number of baptisms, communions, marriages, deaths of children/adults…) in various missions of the Jaffna Diocese. ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 194 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-34.5cm, W-23.4cm, D-2.3cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1910-1950
Extent:: 160

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9/8
Title:: [A collection of filled forms showing yearly reports as of August 1927 and concerning Ecclesiastical Administration (number of baptisms, communions, marriages, deaths of children/adults…) in various missions of the Jaffna Diocese. ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 68 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-31.5cm, W-25.4cm, D-1.9cm.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1926-1927
Extent:: 70

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9/11
Title:: [A collection of several dozens of filled forms showing yearly reports as of September 1925 and concerning Ecclesiastical Administration (number of baptisms, communions, marriages, deaths of children/adults…) in various missions of the Jaffna Diocese. Includes a few scattered documents (year 1939). ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 70 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-32.5cm, W-25.4cm, D-1.5cm. Condition of original material: Fragile.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1925-1939
Extent:: 42

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1222/1/9/12
Title:: [A collection of several dozens of filled forms showing yearly reports as of August 1929 and concerning Ecclesiastical Administration (number of baptisms, communions, marriages, deaths of children/adults…) in various missions of the Jaffna Diocese. Includes a few scattered documents (year 1929). ]
Scope & Content:: Extent: 1 set containing 72 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-32cm, W-25.2cm, D-0.5cm. Condition of original material: Fragile.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Latin, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1929
Extent:: 20

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