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032-004549013 Subject Human settlements Digitised Content Platform Endangered Archives Programme

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. EAP1221/8/1/16

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/16
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a text for a mika ritual, a ceremony to counteract the effects of malicious gossip (mi ka). A ceremony conducted inside a house involving the making of a dough effigy, an ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
22

3. EAP1221/8/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/27
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Untitled text, but this is the text for a short and common ceremony undertaken by lamas, chowas and lay people. The ritual is an offering, usually of arak (distilled alcohol)barley b...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
6

4. EAP1221/8/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/9
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual off...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
72