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Project / Collection Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1221/8 Subject Weapons

1. EAP1221/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8
Title:
Nyima Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Nyima Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts.Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well resp...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
600

2. EAP1221/8/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2
Title:
Ritual artefacts
Scope & Content:
A series of three ritual artefacts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
19

3. EAP1221/8/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:
ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1