༄།།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
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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...
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
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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...
Traditional cloth scroll paintings (thangkas). Buchen thangkas are primarily narrative, visually telling / illustrating key scenes from edifying stories of saints and Deloks. One thangka
Common Title Drimet Kunden: a narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drimet Kunden Late 19th century
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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...
A mask of the crazy saint Drukpah Kunley Mask mid 20th century
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One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
A mask of the first monster (Mirgut) from the story of Norzang late 20th century
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One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
A mask of the second monster (Mirgut) from the story of Norzang late 20th century
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One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...
A mask of the hunter/fisher from the story of Norzang late 20th century
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One Mask The material is owned by Meme Tsering Tobgye and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house. The team was given an extremely short time to photograph the archive and c...