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
Exposition of the sacred relics of Lord Buddha, Arahans Sariputta and Maha Moggallana Arahans
Scope & Content:
Documents regarding the arrangements made for the exposition of Buddhist relics in Gangtok. Original file reference: SPA/RA/MO/004. Extent of original material: 391 pages. This file contains the following 81 items: EAP880/1/4/11/1: Notesheet regarding the arrangements made for the exposition o...
The stupa, Sarnath (U.P.). Copy after a lost sketch made in 1814. Artist(s): 'Abdullah, Shaikh (fl. 1818-1819)
Scope & Content:
(24) The stupa, Sarnath (U.P.). January 1814. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘The Samaudh of Rajah Booth-Sain at Sara-Naat near Benares, January 1814. Copied by Sheik Abdulla. April 1819. It is said that a Door opened formerly into this Samaudh by which the Votaries entered to deposit their offerin...