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1. EAP1221/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18
Title:
Sherab Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
462

2. EAP1221/18/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1
Title:
Ritual texts
Scope & Content:
A series of twenty-five ritual texts.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
446

3. EAP1221/18/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/1
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book of 108 protective symbols each with minimal textual explanation. These symbols are used in rituals by chowas to protect against different kinds of possession, demons, v...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
25

4. EAP1221/18/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/2
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text with a decorated cover page. This text is for a ritual for the transference of consciousness (pho wa). Used primarily after death. This is a common ritual commissioned after the death...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
12

5. EAP1221/18/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/3
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Folded folios simple stiched together. A prayer for all the root gurus / lineage teachers. ༄༅། །རྩ་རྒྱུད་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་གླུ་ཆར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of six...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
12

6. EAP1221/18/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/4
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A prayer for the three kayas (a sanskrit term for the three forms of embodiment of a Buddha: chos skyu; longs skyu and sprul sku). Folded folios simply stiched and covered in brown cloth. ༄༅...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
10

7. EAP1221/18/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/5
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
An untitled woodbock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, lightly bound into a red cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Not a ritual text but a short sutra (religious text). This is Buddha’s (Sakyamnuni) speech to Norbu Sangpo (Norsang) after he prostrated to him. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
5

8. EAP1221/18/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/6
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An Avalokitesvara / Chenresig prayer on behalf of all sentient beings. Used by chowas and others when going into retreat. ༄༅། །འཕགས་པ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་འི་ཆེན་པོར་འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུགས་ཀྱིས་བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ་ཕ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
18

9. EAP1221/18/1/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/7
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but the title is the first line of text. A prayer, invitation or invocation for Dorje Chenmo, a powerful local village deity. The text calls for Dorje Chenmo to possess the bod...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
8

10. EAP1221/18/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/8
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A woodbock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A short confessional text recited to forgive intentional and unintentional sins. A Sutra (Tib. མདོ་ Wylie mdo) ༄༅། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་བཤགས་པའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book co...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
16