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1. EAP1016/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5
Title:
The collection of Pema Wangdu [Late 19th century-Late 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The collection of Pema Wangdu in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh, India. A collection of old Lama Mani texts and thangkas and a brass pointer inherited from his teacher. Extent and format of original material: Three Series. This Fonds contains the following 3 Series: EAP1016/5/1: Objects [Late 19th ce...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Late 20th century
Extent:
662 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/5/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/1
Title:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok [Late 19th century]
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of the delok (Wylie 'das log) Karma Wangzin (Wylie Karma dbang 'dzin). Delok stories are key texts for Lama Manipa and illustrate the prinicples of karma and Buddhist concepts of death and reincarnation. The thangka depicts the judgement of the dead and...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/5/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/2/3
Title:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A thangka illustrating the story of Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, known to Tibetans as Chenrezig (Wylie spyan ras gzigs). The painting shows a few simple scenes of the killing of animals as well as a small scene depicting hell and the judgment of the dead in the bottom left corn...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
15 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/5/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/5/3/4
Title:
མེ་་་འགལ་ཀྱི་རྣཾ་འཕྲུལ་ལུང་ཟིན་རིན་དབང་་་་་་གིས་བར་དོ་བུར་་་་་་བསྐོར་བ་རྣཾས་བཞུགསོ།། [Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Me ’gal gyi rnam ’phrul lung zin rin dbang ….. gis bar do bur ….. bskor ba rnams bzhugs so… The biography of Rinchen Wangdak, the first teacher of Miao manipa Pema Wangdu. Rinchen Wangdak was a delok, an individual who had apparently died and visited the realms of hell before returning to the wo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
135 TIFF images