Material Type: Artefacts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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):: EAP1221/16/2/1
Title:: པིར་རུ
Scope & Content:: Medical suction cups. A collection of five suction cups: two brass cones and three animal horn tips that used for "cupping" the technique of applying a vacuum to remove bad blood (black blood). The cup is applied to the skin for half an hour, the hole in the tip of the cup sealed for that time wi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/2
Title:: Medical artefacts
Scope & Content:: A metal container with wooden pull out drawer and five amchi medical tools, one razor sharp for cutting skin, plus a single spoon. Extent: One medical container, several small tools and a brass spoon. Size and dimensions of original material: The container is 16 x 3 x 3 cm, the spoon is 20.5 cm ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 4

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/3
Title:: Leather bags
Scope & Content:: A collections of twelve small leather bags of varying sizes. Extent: Twelve leather bags. Size and dimensions of original material: Varying from 7.5 to 14 cm long. Condition of original material: Worn and stained through age and usage. Arrangement: All material kept in the household prayer room.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/4
Title:: Grinding stone
Scope & Content:: A large grinding stone for producing powdered ingredients for medicines. It consist of a large flat grinding stone surface with raised lip and a smaller round stone to be held in the hand whilst grinding dried ingredients. Extent: One grinding stone. Size and dimensions of original material: 45 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/16/2/5
Title:: Large leather bag
Scope & Content:: A large leather bag brought from Tibet over two generations ago and containing medical ingredients. Extent: One leather bag. Size and dimensions of original material: 65 cm long. Condition of original material: Worn and stained through age and usage. Arrangement: All material kept in the house...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/1
Title:: གབ་རྩེ / རྩི་གབ་རྩེ་ཐང་ཀ་
Scope & Content:: A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra / blessing or perhaps a description but is very faded. Folded rather than rolled up. Used in ceremonies after the death of an individual but also in other cer...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/2
Title:: ཐང་ཀ
Scope & Content:: An unmounted woodblock printed cloth thangka. Central figure of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) also known locally as Urgyen Rinpoche. Eight other gurus surround the central figure, the eight manifestations / emanations of Padmasambhava. གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་གྱི་པར་མ་ཐང་ཀ་ A guru thangka. Locally this d...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/3
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A large wooden printing block. Carved on one side only with three separate carvings. The two carvings at either end of the block are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. One is a demon figure with feet chained, the other an animal, probably a yak. The...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 5

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/4
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A square shaped wooden printing block carved on two sides with circular shapes, each containing written mantras. The carvings are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. Extent: one wooden printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 16.5 c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

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