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1. EAP749/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2
Title:
The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Chhettan Dorje
Scope & Content:
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Meme Chhettan Dorje. 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); moder...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
1004 Tiff images

2. EAP749/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/3
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Twenty three files of objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
65 Tiff files

3. EAP749/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/4
Title:
Portrait
Scope & Content:
One file of portraits
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
5 Tiff files

4. EAP749/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1
Title:
Texts (pecha)
Scope & Content:
Traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha) as well as photocopies of pecha. 20 Files of Texts
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
907 Tiff images

5. EAP749/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/2
Title:
Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
Scope & Content:
Cloth scroll painting (thangkas) of protector deities or of storytelling paintings used as a visual aid in Buchen performances. Two files of thangkas
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
27 Tiff files

6. EAP749/2/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1/3
Title:
༄། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མེད་ཀུན་ལྡན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of་ Gyalpo Drimet Kundan (Wylie chos kyi rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th Century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Drimed Kunden. 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 essent...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
140 Tiff files

7. EAP749/2/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1/1
Title:
༄། །ཁྱེའུ་པདྨ་འོད་འབར་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Kheu Padma Odbar (Wylie khye''u pad+ma ''od ''bar gyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th Century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Padma Odbar. 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 essentia...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
94 Tiff files

8. EAP749/2/1/14

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1/14
Title:
༄། །ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མེད་ཀུན་ལྡན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of་ Gyalpo Drimet Kundan. (Wylie chos kyi rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mixed, some pages originally Mid 19th Century some Late 20th Century
Scope & Content:
The story of Drimed Kunden. Written in Tibetan Uchen script. Like many Buchen texts, this is an edifying biographical/hagiographical story (namthar) used to illustrate and explain essential Buddhist ideas of karma and impermanence. (complete). Variable form: some pages handwritten, others photoc...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
146 Tiff files

9. EAP749/2/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1/2
Title:
༄། །གུ་རུ་ཆོས་དབང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Guru Chöwang (Wylie gu ru chos dbang gi rnam thar bzhugs so) Early 20th Century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Guru Chöwang. 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:
Early 20th century
Extent:
46 Tiff files

10. EAP749/2/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/2/1/4
Title:
༄། །དྲག་པོ་རྟ་མགྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔ།། Tamdrin (text) (Wylie drag po rta mgrin lha lnga). Prayer to a wrathful deity (Yidam Tamdrin) to give the Buchen power and assistance in their rituals (stone breaking and others) Late 20th Century
Scope & Content:
Written in Tibetan Uchen script. Condition good (handwritten). Size 370 x 85mm. 1 volume of 12 folios. File includes a cover page. The material is owned by Meme Chettan Dorje and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. These Tibetan texts are in numb...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
12 Tiff files