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Project / Collection Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers Subject Buddhism Material Type Prints, Drawings and Paintings

1. EAP1016/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2
Title:
Thangkas [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Six narrative thangkas. This Series contains the following 6 Files: EAP1016/1/2/1: A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century] EAP1016/1/2/2: A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th cent...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
158 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/1/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/2
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 74 x 108 cm (max) with image area (Melong) approx 63 x 83 cm (max). A very simple plain cloth surround with more recent repairs to the top section. Very substantial paint loss. Also creasing and substantial staining thr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
20 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/1/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/4
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 118 x 68 cm. A very simple patterned cloth surround. Substantial colour fading throughout and several holes and tears. Some paint loss.Very simple drawings of a small number of illustrative scenes. Central figure of Che...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
19 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/1/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/5
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka) Size approx 101 x 64 cm with the image area (melong) size 52 x 39 cm. A very simple and plain cloth surround. Substantial staining and some paint loss and holes in the canvas due to substantial creasing. Central figure of Chenresig...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
16 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2
Title:
Thangkas [Mid 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
. Creation dates: The thangkas are almost always undated and without contact with the original owners, dates are necessarily approximate. Extent and format of original material: Fifteen Thangkas. This Series contains the following 15 Files: EAP1016/3/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the s...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
580 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/3/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Zukyi Nyima གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ (Wylie gZugs kyi nyi ma). Size including the cloth surround 162 x 85.5cm. Width at bottom is 93cm. Image (melong) size 77.5 x 54cm. Central figure of Buddha Shakyamuni. Finely detailed and in very good condition overall wit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
83 TIFF images

7. EAP1016/3/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/12
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Norzang ནོར་བཟང (Wylie Nor bzang). Size including the cloth surround 134 x 81. Image (melong) size 69.5 x 54cm. Age 100-150 years. Finely detailed and with some paint loss, creasing and darkening of the overall image from use. Central figure of Buddh...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
23 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/3/2/13

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/13
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Gyalsa Besa རྒྱལ་བཟའ་བལ་བཟའ (Wylie rGyal bza’ bal bza’). Also known as Gyelmo gonjor རྒྱལ་མོ་གོང་འབྱོར (Wylie rgyal mo gong 'byor) Size including the cloth surround 148 x 89cm Width at bottom 91 cm. Image (melong) size 84 x 58.5 cm. Richly detailed. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
29 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2
Title:
Thangkas [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Extent and format of original material: Seven items. This Series contains the following 7 Files: EAP1016/5/2/1: A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/2: A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Late 19th century] EAP1016/5/2/3: A than...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
78 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/5/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok (Wylie 'das log) Karma Wangzin (Wylie Karma dbang 'dzin). Delok stories are key texts for Lama Manipa and illustrate the prinicples of karma and Buddhist concepts of death and reincarnation. The thangka depicts the judgement of the dead and...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

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