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1671. EAP749/14/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/14/1
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Performance related ritual objects, musical instruments, statues and elements of Buchen costumes. Two objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
8 Tiff files

1672. EAP749/14/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/14/1/1
Title:
Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Mid 20th century
Scope & Content:
A 210 mm high silver statue of Tangtong Gyalpo on a brass lotus throne. The statue is (unusually) not wrapped in cloth or kataks but decorated only with a folded five rupee note. It has quite elaborate engraved detail including folds of silver clothing and he is holding green-jewelled long life ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
7 Tiff files

1673. EAP749/14/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/14/1/2
Title:
Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Late Nineteenth / Early 20th century
Scope & Content:
A very simple and long 580 mm prayer wheel with 50 mm high, 100 mmm wide silver box simply engraved with mantras and long dark wooden handle topped with silver. Iron stroker, no bell or "hook". One Prayer wheel The material is owned by Chherring (Tsering) Angchuk and has been handed down from f...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 20th century
Extent:
1 Tiff file

1674. EAP749/15

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15
Title:
The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
Scope & Content:
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsering Tobgye. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern wes...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
265 Tiff files

1675. EAP749/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1
Title:
Texts (pecha)
Scope & Content:
Traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha) as well as photocopies of pecha. Two files of texts
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
238 Tiff files

1676. EAP749/15/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1/1
Title:
༄།།རིགས་བཟང་གི་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་སྣང་ས་འོད་འབུམ་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Kandroma Nangsa Odbum (Wylie rigs bzang gi mkha'' ''gro ma snang sa ''od ''bum gyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Nangsa Odbum. Written in Tibetan Uchen script on separate sheets of paper. Like many Buchen texts, this is an edifying biographical /hagiographical story (namthar) used to illustrate and explain essenti...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
174 Tiff files

1677. EAP749/15/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/1/2
Title:
གུ་རུ་ཆོས་དབང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The Story of Guru Choswang (wylie gu ru chos dbang gi rnam thar bzhugs so) Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), telling the story of Guru Choswang. Written in Tibetan Uchen script on separate sheets of paper. This is the tale of Guru Choswang, whose unbeliever mother dies when he is away practising Buddhism, and is only saved from he...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
64 Tiff files

1678. EAP749/15/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/2
Title:
Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
Scope & Content:
Traditional cloth scroll paintings (thangkas). Buchen thangkas are primarily narrative, visually telling / illustrating key scenes from edifying stories of saints and Deloks. One thangka
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
16 Tiff files

1679. EAP749/15/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/2/1
Title:
Common Title Drimet Kunden: a narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drimet Kunden Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
Image (Melong) size 740 x 640 mm. Full mounted size 950 x 640 mm (no overall cloth mounting - just top and bottom). Age, perhaps 150 years old. Date suggested by the owner. Well used object with staining, fading and some holes and tears to the cloth. One Thangka The material is owned by Meme Ts...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
16 Tiff files

1680. EAP749/15/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/15/3
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Performance related ritual objects, musical instruments, statues and elements of Buchen costumes. Seven objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
11 Tiff files

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