Subject: Anthropology - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/4
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A square shaped wooden printing block carved on two sides with circular shapes, each containing written mantras. The carvings are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. Extent: one wooden printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 16.5 c...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/5
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང་
Scope & Content:: A small wooden dough mould carved on one side only with two figures, one a naga like figure, the other a lama like figure. These carvings are "printed" into dough to make figures used in tantric rituals. These dough impressions are probably of Lud (Tib. གླུད Wylie. glud)primarily used in ransom e...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 3

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/2/6
Title:: གདུགས་དཀར
Scope & Content:: A circular printed image containing many mantras. Commonly used as a protective device hung on the door, worn (folded) around the neck or inside a stitched silk square cover. Removed at night. A paper chart printed from a large woodblock. The image displays concentric circles of text, in Tibetan ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19
Title:: Urgyen Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Urgyen Chherring. A collection of medical, astrological and wedding texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Material kept in the household prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 710

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This volume contains two separate books. Firstly the Explanatory tantra, which is the second of the four main Amchi texts, the four medical tantras. བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 577

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/2/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is an astrological (tsipa) text འབྲས་རྩིས་ཀུན་བསྡུས་རིན་ཆེན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། The volume contains several inserted pieces of paper which are perhaps unrelated to the Tsipa text. The first three...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 68

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/19/3/1
Title:: Pages from an exercise book, containing Spiti wedding songs including stone songs
Scope & Content:: Pages from a modern notebook, containing written transcriptions of Spiti weddings songs, specifically stone songs ( Tib. ཐོ་གླུ་ Wylie tho glu / Tib. མཐོ་གླུ་ Wylie mtho glu) This is primarily the song for mtho mo che, the most important of the stone songs. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu che...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 13

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