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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/3
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carvings include human and humanoid figures, symbols and the twelve animals, the twelve year signs of the Tibetan calendar on the other. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Si...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/4/4
Title:: ཐོ་མོ་ཆེ / མཐོ་མོ་ཆེ
Scope & Content:: A painted wooden staff used by the nyahon, the head of the group of wedding singers. The staff is an important element in the performance of the stone songs, an elaborate and competitive ceremony undertaken during large Spiti weddings. Extent: One wooden staff. Size and dimensions of original ma...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གཙུག་ཏོར་དཀར་མོའི་ཟློག་སྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། A ritual text for exorcising or averting evil and obstacles. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 10

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་བདུད་དཔུང་ཕྱེ་མར་འཐག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Shakyamuni’s praise to Vairocana. Reading this text is an effective way of repelilng demons....
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/3
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གནོད་སྦྱིན་ཀྴཧྲ་པཱ་ལ་མཆོད་གཏོར་འབུལ་ཚུལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རེ་སྐོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། A ritual for making offerings to powerful bodyless spirits (which can be benevolent or malevolent) in order to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 20

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/4
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །ལྷ་མོའི་གཏོར་འབུལ་བཞུགསོ། A ritual for offering thorma (sculptural shapes moulded from tsampa dough, sometimes with added butter milk and honey etc) to the protector deity Palden Lhamo,...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/5
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. ༄༅། །ཀོང་རྩེའི་ལྟོས་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་བུམ་གཏེར་སྦད་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།། A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase (bum pa)...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/6
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a vase ceremony. Perhaps a resume of many such texts as narrated by the Panchen Lama. ༄༅། །པན་ཆེན་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གསུང་ཐོར་བུམ་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྡེབས་པ་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent:...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 22

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):: EAP1221/20/1/8
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, ༄༅། །བསྲུང་བའི་འཁོར་ལོ་བརྒྱ་དང་བརྒྱད་བཞུགས་སོ། A book of 108 symbols, which are protective circles / protective mandalas, each with minimal textual explanation. These symbols are ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

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