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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified text. with lists and some drawings on the final pages.In. Extent: One unbound book consisting of fourteen olios. Size and dim...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 30

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/1/15
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is perhaps a text for a ritual following death. After consultation with a tsipa / chowa, details are given for which direction the con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 13

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/1/16
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is unreadable. A ritual for producing a malign torma (ཟོར: a ritual dough offering empowered by prayer / mantra) to use against ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/2/1
Title:: གཏོར་མའི་རི་མོ
Scope & Content:: A instructional manuscript with several explanatory line drawings of torma, ritual offerings sculpted from tsampa dough. Torma (Tib. གཏོར་མ Wylie. gtor ma) are common ritual object in tantric cermonies conducted by chowa and also by lamas in monasteries and temples. Each drawing is named. Extent:...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/2/2
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A flat wooden dough mould carved on one side only. It has several carvings of astrological symbols and a line of humanoid, animal headed creatures: shapes and figures that are pressed into dough offerings (torma) during specific tantric rituals. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimension...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 30

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/14/2/3
Title:: གབ་རྩེ་
Scope & Content:: A beautiful and complex astrological thangka / divination chart used to calculate auspicious days for important events in a person's life, depending on the day, month and year of their birth. Drawn on paper and mounted on to black cloth. Extent: One astrological thangka / divination chart. Size ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/17/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An unbound woodblock printed Tibetan medical text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Entitled: དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྣོ་མཐོང་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དེའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་དང་བཅས་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། A divination (རྣོ་མཐོང) text used by a village amchis (Tibetan doctors) but als...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 116

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book of 108 protective symbols each with minimal textual explanation. These symbols are used in rituals by chowas to protect against different kinds of possession, demons, v...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 25

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):: EAP1221/18/1/3
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Folded folios simple stiched together. A prayer for all the root gurus / lineage teachers. ༄༅། །རྩ་རྒྱུད་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་གླུ་ཆར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of six...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

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