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Subject Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)

361. EAP749/18/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/18/1
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Performance related ritual objects, musical instruments, statues and elements of Buchen costumes. Three objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
15 Tiff files

362. EAP749/18/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/18/1/1
Title:
Dagger: Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ Mid 18th century
Scope & Content:
Old, well used and very fine quailty three headed (wrathful faced) iron dagger, the blade is also engraved with serpent design. 233 mm long. Blue silk cloth attached to the body of the dagger. One dagger The material is owned by Sonam Dawa and was handed down from his father in law Meme Gatuk T...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
9 Tiff files

363. EAP749/18/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/18/1/2
Title:
Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Mid 18th century
Scope & Content:
An old clay statue of Tangtong Gyalpo, wrapped in simple cloth that has been stitched around the body of the statue. The cloth is pierced by a simple iron trident headed skewer (katamka). It feels as if the body of the statue may be broken a little inside. We chose not to unwrap it. 210mm high, ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
4 Tiff files

364. EAP749/18/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/18/1/3
Title:
Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Early 19th century
Scope & Content:
A very fine old prayer wheel, with wooden handle. Total length 265 mm. The handle is 140mm long, the box itself is 55mm long and 85 mm wide. The "hat" is made from engraved silver, the box is copper and brass. The wooden handle is topped with brass and has a brass base. It also has a brass bell ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 Tiff files

365. EAP749/19

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19
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 Sonam Palden. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of a modern house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
212 Tiff files

366. EAP749/19/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/1
Title:
Texts (pecha)
Scope & Content:
Traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha) as well as photocopies of pecha. One file of texts
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
128 Tiff files

367. EAP749/19/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/1/1
Title:
༄། །འདས་ལོག་གླིང་ས་ཆོས་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Lingza Choskyit (Wylie ''das log gling sa chos skyid kyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th Century
Scope & Content:
A traditional handwritten/handcopied, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), on handmade paper, telling the story of the Delok Lingsa Choskyit, who entered the netherworld between life and death, witnessed the realms of hell and came back to report on the future that might await. Written ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
128 Tiff files

368. EAP749/19/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/2
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:
50 Tiff files

369. EAP749/19/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/2/1
Title:
མཁའ་འགྲོའི་བུ་མོ་འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོ༏ The story of Kandroma Drowa Zangmo (Wylie mkha'' ''gro''i bu mo ''gro ba bzang mo) Late 20th century
Scope & Content:
A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drowa Zangmo. Image (Melong) size 825 x 602 mm. About 20 year''s old. One Thangka The material is owned by Meme Sonam Palden and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
50 Tiff files

370. EAP749/19/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3
Title:
Objects
Scope & Content:
Performance related ritual objects, musical instruments, statues and elements of Buchen costumes. Nine objects
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
34 Tiff files