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Project / Collection Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers Subject Art Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

1. EAP1016/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1
Title:
The family collection of Pema Choephel [18th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The family collection of Pema Choephel held in Bangalore India. A collection of Lama Mani objects, thangkas and texts belonging to Pema Choephel's late father Buchen Pema Tsewang. A collection of items passed down through generations of Lama Mani in Tibet and brought to India where Buchen Pema T...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century-20th century
Extent:
1138 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/1/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/1
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 63 x 83 cm (max) with image area (Melong) approx 43 x 71 cm (max). A very simple plain cloth surround with a red section above and below the middle of the image area. Images of eight Deities. Minor paint loss from crea...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
12 TIFF images

3. 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

4. EAP1016/1/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/3
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 x 113 x 83 cm (max) Melong (Image Area) size 58 x 83 cm (max). A very simple plain cloth surround with more recent repairs on the left hand edge. Very substantial paint loss. Also substantial staining throughout. The paint los...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
28 TIFF images

5. 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

6. 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

7. EAP1016/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3
Title:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery [Mid 19th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
The monastic collection at Dolma Ling Nunnery near Dharamsala, India. An archive of objects, texts and Lama Mani thangkas which includes some modern copies of much older thangkas in the collection. The precise provenance of the individual items in the collection is undocumented and unknown but i...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
2296 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/3/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/3
Title:
The older of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The older of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol ཀུན་དགའ་རང་གྲོལ (Wylie Kun dga’ rang grol), and depicting the Lord of Death and the judgement of the dead, detailing the myriad forms of suffering within the realms of Hell. Size including the clot...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
93 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/3/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/4
Title:
The newer of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The newer of two almost identical narrative thangkas illustrating the story of Delok Kunga Rangdol ཀུན་དགའ་རང་གྲོལ (Wylie Kun dga’ rang grol), and depicting the Lord of Death and the judgement of the dead, detailing the myriad forms of suffering within the realms of Hell. Size including the clot...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
35 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/3/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/2/6
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drowa Zangmo [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drowa Zangmo འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོ (Wylie ’gro ba bzang mo). Size including the cloth surround 148.5 x 95 cm. 103 cm wide at the bottom. Image (melong) size 75 x 53 cm. Age 20-40 years. A simple modern thangka in good condition overall with some paint loss d...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
26 TIFF images