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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP749/15 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP749/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15
Title:
The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
Scope & Content:
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsering Tobgye. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern wes...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
265 Tiff files

2. EAP749/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1
Title:
Texts (pecha)
Scope & Content:
Traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha) as well as photocopies of pecha. Two files of texts
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
238 Tiff files

3. EAP749/15/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1/1
Title:
༄།།རིགས་བཟང་གི་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་སྣང་ས་འོད་འབུམ་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Kandroma Nangsa Odbum (Wylie rigs bzang gi mkha'' ''gro ma snang sa ''od ''bum gyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Nangsa Odbum. Written in Tibetan Uchen script on separate sheets of paper. Like many Buchen texts, this is an edifying biographical /hagiographical story (namthar) used to illustrate and explain essenti...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
174 Tiff files

4. EAP749/15/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1/2
Title:
གུ་རུ་ཆོས་དབང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The Story of Guru Choswang (wylie gu ru chos dbang gi rnam thar bzhugs so) Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Guru Choswang. Written in Tibetan Uchen script on separate sheets of paper. This is the tale of Guru Choswang, whose unbeliever mother dies when he is away practising Buddhism, and is only saved from he...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
64 Tiff files

5. EAP749/15/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/2
Title:
Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
Scope & Content:
Traditional cloth scroll paintings (thangkas). Buchen thangkas are primarily narrative, visually telling / illustrating key scenes from edifying stories of saints and Deloks. One thangka
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
16 Tiff files

6. EAP749/15/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/2/1
Title:
Common Title Drimet Kunden: a narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drimet Kunden Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
Image (Melong) size 740 x 640 mm. Full mounted size 950 x 640 mm (no overall cloth mounting - just top and bottom). Age, perhaps 150 years old. Date suggested by the owner. Well used object with staining, fading and some holes and tears to the cloth. One Thangka The material is owned by Meme Ts...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
16 Tiff files

7. EAP749/15/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/3
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Performance related ritual objects, musical instruments, statues and elements of Buchen costumes. Seven objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
11 Tiff files

8. EAP749/15/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/3/1
Title:
A mask of the crazy saint Drukpah Kunley Mask mid 20th century
Scope & Content:
One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
2 Tiff files

9. EAP749/15/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/3/2
Title:
A mask of the first monster (Mirgut) from the story of Norzang late 20th century
Scope & Content:
One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
1 Tiff file

10. EAP749/15/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/3/3
Title:
A mask of the second monster (Mirgut) from the story of Norzang late 20th century
Scope & Content:
One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
1 Tiff files