Place: Lhasa, Tibet, China - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3027
Title:: Chinese temple at Lhasa
Scope & Content:: Chinese temple at Lhasa. Inscribed: ‘This is a drawing of the Chinese Temple at Lassa, and is interesting as tending to show the powerful control which that nation exercises over the Tibetans at Lassa, who are of a different religion: still here is the Raja of Lassa and a deputy of the Gyalwa R...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1844-1862
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3028
Title:: Potala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?)
Scope & Content:: Potala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?) ‘Inscribed:’ ‘This scene is in the Potala at Lhasa, and in a square called Déyungshurr, bde-hbyun (origin or source of happiness)’ [bde-hbyun- ]. ‘The ceremony here pictured takes place in April on the 15th of Dawasumpé tséchogna. Dawa’ [zla-ba]’ is month,...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1844-1862
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 3029
Title:: Potala: the descent of the rope
Scope & Content:: Potala: the descent of the rope. Inscribed: ‘This represents a dangerous exhibition of a man traversing which takes place at the Potala on the 2nd day of the Lnsur’ [lo-gsar, new year]’ fair. It is called Chungkul-takshur’ [byan-khal-thag-sur]. ‘The people who exhibit come from Tsang, and the...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1844-1862
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1
Title:: Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:: While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1807-1998
Extent:: 89249 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/2
Title:: Foreign Affairs
Scope & Content:: Documents related to foreign affairs. Original file reference: SPA/FA.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Hindi, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 1875-1975
Extent:: 6183 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/2/2
Title:: Victor Hope's (Viceroy, India) visit to Sikkim
Scope & Content:: Arrangements for the Viceroy's visit to Sikkim in 1939. Original file reference: SPA/FA/BI/002. Extent of original material: 306 pages. This file contains the following 229 items: EAP880/1/2/2/1: Copy of work proposal, 31 Dec 1938, [3 images]; EAP880/1/2/2/2: List of materials required for uni...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 1938-1940
Extent:: 307 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/2/16
Title:: Documents and correspondence between Palden Thondup Namgyal (Chogyal r.1965-1982) and various Political Officers (Sikkim) and Dewan
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous correspondence on a variety of subjects between Palden Thondup Namgyal (Chogyal r.1965-1982), Apa B. Pant and others. Original file reference: SPA/FA/IN/005. Extent of original material: 291 pages. This file contains the following 149 items: EAP880/1/2/16/1: Letter from B.K. Kapu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1955-1963
Extent:: 293 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/2/35
Title:: Installation of H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
Scope & Content:: Documents related to the expenses incurred during the visit of Crown Prince Paljor Namgyal to Lhasa for the installation of H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama. Original file reference: SPA/FA/TB/008. Extent of original material: 228 pages. This file contains the following 107 items: EAP880/1/2/35/1: Not...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tibetan
Date Range:: 4 Nov 1939-29 Mar 1941
Extent:: 232 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP880/1/2/39
Title:: Tibetan government levying taxes on Sikkimese residing in Tibet
Scope & Content:: Correspondence regarding taxes levyed on Sikkimese residing in Chumbi valley. Original file reference: SPA/FA/TB/012. Extent of original material: 66 pages. This file contains the following 31 items: EAP880/1/2/39/1: Notesheet regarding the tax exemption of Prince Tshodag Namgyal in Tibet, 23 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:: 1922-1923
Extent:: 67 TIFF images

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