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

31. EAP1016/2/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/2/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Pema Öbar [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Pema Öbar ཁྱེའུ་པདྨ་འོད་འབར (Wylie Khye’u Padma ’od ’bar). Size including the cloth surround 81 x 154 cm. Image (melong) size 54 x 77 cm. Finely detailed. Heavily creased from usage and with some paint loss throughout but otherwise readable. The six ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
42 TIFF images

32. EAP1016/2/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/2/2/2
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Dharma King Norsang [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Dharma King Norsang ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ནོར་བུ་བཟང་པོ (Wylie Chos kyi rgyal po nor bu bzang po). Size including the cloth surround 90 x 156 cm. Image (melong) size 60 x 80 cm. Finely detailed and in excellent condiition.. Creation dates: Late 20th Centur...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
41 TIFF images

33. EAP1016/2/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/2/2/3
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Sukyi Nyima [Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Sukyi Nyima གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཉི་མ (Wylie gZugs kyi nyi ma). Size including the cloth surround 82.5 x 136 cm. Image (melong) size 56 x 74 cm. Finely detailed. Some staining from usage and with some paint loss from creasing but otherwise readable.. Creation d...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
30 TIFF images

34. 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

35. EAP1016/3/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/1
Title:
A brass pointer [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A brass pointer, square in cross section and with a mantra engraved on the shaft. 92 cm long, decorated with attachments including trinkets, small bells, a piece of red thread, a ring, and an image of the Buddha. Such pointers are used by Lama Manipas to indicate key scenes depicted on a narrati...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

36. EAP1016/3/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/2
Title:
A green, red and yellow hat [Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A green, red and yellow hat approximately 26 x 21 cm on which is pinned a small badge with portrait of Urgyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa as a child. (Urgyen Trinley Dorje is one of two individuals recognised as the 17th Karmapa).. Creation dates: Mid 20th centruy. Custodial history: An obj...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

37. EAP1016/3/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/3
Title:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme [Late 20th century-Early 21st century]
Scope & Content:
A photocopy of a letter of recommendation for Buchen Gyurme (Wylie ’Gyur med) from the Department of Religion and Culture, Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It explains that Buchen Gyurme came from Shelkar (Dingri) in Tibet and travelled widely in Tibet, performing a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century-Early 21st century
Extent:
1 TIFF images

38. EAP1016/3/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/4
Title:
A brass pointer [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A brass pointer, round in cross section. 84 cm long, decorated with attachments including a zee stone and cheap jewellery: imitation pearl, coral, amber and turquoise. Such pointers are used by Lama Manipas to indicate key scenes depicted on a narrative thangka of the story being told. Chak Dhar...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
3 TIFF images

39. EAP1016/3/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/3/1/5
Title:
A fine brass pointer [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A fine brass pointer, square in cross section. 75 cm long, decorated with numerous attachments including several small bells, a piece of animal fur, coral beads and pieces of turquoise. Such pointers are used by Lama Manipas to indicate key scenes depicted on a narrative thangka of the story bei...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

40. 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