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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP1221/18 Subject Astrology Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

1. EAP1221/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18
Title:
Sherab Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:
The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
1800-2023
Extent:
462

2. EAP1221/18/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/12
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An astrological text for calculating details of an individual’s life from their date and time of birth. ༄༅། །རྨེ་བའི་སྐྱེས་རྩི་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of seventeen folios. S...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
35

3. EAP1221/18/1/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/15
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. Title gleaned from pages inside the text. Some diagrams within the text. An astrological text referring to the twelve year Tibe...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
83

4. EAP1221/18/1/22

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/22
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An instructional astrological text, a manual for calculation / divination ༄༅། །འབྱུང་རྩི་མན་ངག་ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
33

5. EAP1221/18/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/1/23
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An instructional text for a ritual to overcome serious infectious disease perhaps through the recitation of the six potent mantras contained within the text. It states that the text is so powerful t...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
7

6. EAP1221/18/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/18/2/1
Title:
གབ་རྩེ / རྩི་གབ་རྩེ་ཐང་ཀ་
Scope & Content:
A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra / blessing or perhaps a description but is very faded. Folded rather than rolled up. Used in ceremonies after the death of an individual but also in other cer...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2