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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/8
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. There is no title page but this is the text for a ritual to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy) back into the body when illness or other problem has caused it to leave. The ritual is p...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/9
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. There is no title page but this is the text for a ritual to turn back the harmful effects of gossip / slander / malicious gossip (Tib. མི་ཁ་ Wylie mi kha). Extent: One unbound book consistin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/10
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual performed for people who have suffered because of a curse, the harmful influence of sorcery. The ritual will release them from this. The problem is usually diagnosed by lamas in the...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 70

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/11
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The text for a wrathful tantric ritual to expel negative forces. Title is གུ་རུ་དྲག་པོ་ཐེམ་མདོ་ལས། སྒྲལ་ལས་བསད་པ་ལས་བཅུ་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། The first section of the title is the overall t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 24

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/12
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a text describing how to erect a flagpole for Tibetan prayer flags (lung ta lit. windhorse). Title is perhaps: རླུང་རྟ་སྒྲེང་ཚུལ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of five...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 11

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/13
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a brown cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a liberation text. A short ritual saving the life of an animal due to be slaughtered. The animal is beautified, its ears decorated with red col...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a dark blue cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. An unidentified astrological text. Extent: One book consisting of thirty nine folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 28 cm...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 81

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/1
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
Scope & Content:: A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 26 cm long. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 18

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A carved wooden block for printing images into dough shapes made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Numerous carvings of human and humanoid figures and symbols. Extent: one dough mould. Size and dimensions of original material: 57.5cm x 4 cm x 3 cm. Condition of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 35

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/11/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ
Scope & Content:: An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Used to calculate auspicious dates based on a person's day, month and year of birth. Extent: One astrological thangka /divin...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

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