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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1221/8 Subject Animals Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. EAP1221/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8
Title:
Nyima Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Nyima Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts.Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well resp...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
600

2. EAP1221/8/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/1
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:
A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are used to make impressions of figures and symbols into dough offerings used in tantric rituals. The spectrum of carvings on these dough moulds include h...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
16

3. EAP1221/8/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:
ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1