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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/9
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase ( bum pa ) sometimes containing precious items (rin po che) , gold, silk, auspicious objects, grains...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 10

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/10
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, with a cover sheet in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A unusual short "text" containing several diagrams, perhaps sections of larger drawings. One is similar in some way...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 8

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/11
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The cover is very dark cover so the title text is hard to read. This is an offering to the 100 deities who reside in Ganden, a Buddhist heaven, a pure joyous land occupied by Buddhas and Boddhisatva...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 6

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/12
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A single sheet of folded paper. Writing on one side only. A short prayer, an offering to the yaksha (Tib གནོད་སྦྱིན་ Wylie gnod sbyin) Potentially very harmful spirits and d...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/13
Title:: A text in the form of a long paper scroll with images and text
Scope & Content:: An untitled text. A long woodblock printed roll containing numerous signs and symbols, The eight auspicious Tibetansymbols; images of Boddhisatvas, daggers, animals like snakes, birds rabbits dogs and horse; the sun and moon. Extent: One text in the form of a long thin paper scroll. Size and dim...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 10

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/14
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in both "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A divination text. Perhaps a section of a tsipa (astrologer) text describing how to recognise / calculate good and bad, auspicious and ina...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 21

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/2/1
Title:: ཐོད་པ་ or ཀ་པ་ལི
Scope & Content:: A human skull cup or ka pa la. An object commonly used in tantric rituals. Extent: One skull cup. Size and dimensions of original material: 15.5 x 13 x 6 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/2/2
Title:: Brass metal stands
Scope & Content:: Two brass stands for the human skull cup. Extent: Brass stands. Size and dimensions of original material: 13 x 8 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

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