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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1217/1/2862
Title:: கிரியாக் கிரமம்
Scope & Content:: This manuscript Kiriuakkiramam dealt with the routines and rules to adopt in human life such as anushtanam, asana vidhi, viputhi tharanai vidhi, rishi tharpanam, manusha tharpanam, diksha, vasthu, panchakavya etc. Leaf nos 19,16,61,64,75,95-103,105-115,117-154,184-194,196-299, 201, 204-211, 214,...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 266

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1
Title:: Dorje Chherring Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Dorje Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts and a single wedding speech text. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 1046

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/1/1/12
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A protection ritual for times of difficulty, social breakdown. Connected with the protector figure བཤན་པ་དམར་པོ shenpa marpo. A ritual recommended directly by Guru Rinpoche ལས་བྱེ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 19th century
Extent:: 8

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/7
Title:: Phuntsog Namgya Collection
Scope & Content:: The household collection of Phuntsog Namgyal. A collection of wedding song texts.Custodial history: The Collection of Spiti song texts belongs to Phuntsog Namgyal from Kibber. His father Nawang Dorje was a famous nyahon (Spiti singer) as was his grandfather Sonam Tseten. Serku did not become a ny...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1800-2023
Extent:: 193

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/7/1/1
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An untitled, handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book constructed from sheets of handmade paper 29 x 23 cm, folded to 29 x 11.5 cm and simply stitched with a loop of thread through the centre. The subject matter of this text are Dong Shak Lu ( tib. གདོང...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 19

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/7/1/2
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An untitled, handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Umé) script. A book of separate folios of handmade paper 22 x 10 cm, though some pages are much smaller than this due to wear. The subject matter of this text are Zum Lu (tib. འཛོམས་གླུ། ...wylie.་'dzoms glu ) which are ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 12

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/7/1/6
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An untitled, handwritten Tibetan text (pecha). An unidentified text, part of a collection of Spiti wedding texts and song texts. Written primarily in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Umé) script in black ink, with some text written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and some in blue ink. A bo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 29

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/7/1/8
Title:: དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:: An unidentified text, part of a collection of Spiti wedding texts and song texts. The text contains questions and answers, some in the form of riddles, to be addressed during the wedding. Spiti weddings are complex social events taking place over two or three days in which music and other sounds,...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Early 20th century
Extent:: 18

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