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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/23
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified and untitled text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of two folded folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 22 cm x 7.8 cm folding to 22 cm x ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/24
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for the blessing / consecration of Tibetan skull cups (kapala), objects used in tantric rituals. ( Tib. ཐོད་པ་བྱིན་རླབས་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. thod pa byin rlabs). Extent: One unbou...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 10

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/25
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unusual text, with the normal long rectangular shape cut to a point at one end. The pecha consists of five pages with diagrammatic shapes and writing. This text is for use in astr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 7

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/26
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled and unidentified astrological text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 26.5 cm x 8.3 cm. Condit...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/27
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Untitled text, but this is the text for a short and common ceremony undertaken by lamas, chowas and lay people. The ritual is an offering, usually of arak (distilled alcohol)barley b...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 6

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/28
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled and unidentified text. Folios bound together with thread and covered with brown cloth. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and dimensions of original material: E...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 17

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/1/29
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is a prayer book for daily recitation. Several symbols drawn on the later pages. (Tib. འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱིས་གསུངས་པའི་རྒྱུན་འདོན་བཞུགས་སོ།་ Wylie. 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyis gsu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 9

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/2/1
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are used to make impressions of figures and symbols into dough offerings used in tantric rituals. The spectrum of carvings on these dough moulds include h...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 16

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/2/2
Title:: perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ།
Scope & Content:: The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:: ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:: A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1

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