Project / Collection: Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti / Archive Reference (shelfmark): EAP1221/20 / Subject: Human settlements - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20
Title:: Thukten Chhoezang Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Thukten Chhoezang. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Loose texts kept in the prayer room in a cardboard box.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 181

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/20/1/5
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. ༄༅། །ཀོང་རྩེའི་ལྟོས་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་བུམ་གཏེར་སྦད་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།། A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase (bum pa)...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 14

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):: EAP1221/20/1/9
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

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