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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/15
Title:: Thinley Namgyal Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Thinley Namgyal. Two astrological texts.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 1278

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/17
Title:: Sonam Dorje Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Sonam Dorje. A single Tibetan divination text for use in a medical context. Custodial history: A single amchi (medical) divination text inherited from his great grandfather. Arrangement: An individual text kept in the prayer room of the family home.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 116

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/17/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An unbound woodblock printed Tibetan medical text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Entitled: དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྣོ་མཐོང་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དེའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་དང་བཅས་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། A divination (རྣོ་མཐོང) text used by a village amchis (Tibetan doctors) but als...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 116

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book of 108 protective symbols each with minimal textual explanation. These symbols are used in rituals by chowas to protect against different kinds of possession, demons, v...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 25

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text with a decorated cover page. This text is for a ritual for the transference of consciousness (pho wa). Used primarily after death. This is a common ritual commissioned after the death...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/3
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Folded folios simple stiched together. A prayer for all the root gurus / lineage teachers. ༄༅། །རྩ་རྒྱུད་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་གླུ་ཆར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of six...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/18/1/4
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A prayer for the three kayas (a sanskrit term for the three forms of embodiment of a Buddha: chos skyu; longs skyu and sprul sku). Folded folios simply stiched and covered in brown cloth. ༄༅...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 10

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