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Subject Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)

371. EAP749/19/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/1
Title:
Dagger: Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ Late 20th century
Scope & Content:
Three headed (wrathful faced) dagger. 220mm long. One dagger 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 kept within the prayer room of a modern house.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
4 Tiff files

372. EAP749/19/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/2
Title:
Conch shell chest ornament: Tonka (Wylie thong ga) ཐོང་ག Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
A conch shell waistcoat, usually made up of four pieces of carved conch shell, this item has only two pieces in place, each approx 75mm square. One conch shell chest ornament The material is owned by Meme Sonam Palden and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of he...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 Tiff files

373. EAP749/19/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/3
Title:
Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
An old five section hat stitched together with a cloth headband. Each section is approximately 182 x 95 mm and painted. Perhaps 100 years old? Painted with images of the Buddha. Constructed from a stiff material made from thin layers of cloth bound together with animal skin glue and wheat paste....
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
10 Tiff files

374. EAP749/19/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/4
Title:
Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Early 21st century
Scope & Content:
A new, modern, home made cardboard Five Buddha Family Hat marked with mantra Om A Hum. Each section approx 100 x 160mm. One hat 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:
2000-2015
Extent:
1 Tiff file

375. EAP749/19/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/5
Title:
Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
A plain conch shell. 150mm long. One Conch 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 kept within the prayer room of a modern house.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2 Tiff files

376. EAP749/19/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/6
Title:
Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
An old prayer wheel, with a wooden handle. Total length 280mm, the handle length of 165 mm, box itself is 50mm long and 80 mm wide is finely worked in silver with an iron striker. The wooden handle is topped with silver and has a silver base. It also has a brass bell halfway up the shaft. One Pr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
3 Tiff files

377. EAP749/19/3/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/7
Title:
Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Late 19th century
Scope & Content:
An old box. 330 x 405 x 255 mm, wrapped in elaborate cloth covering like a rouched curtain. One Wooden Box 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 kept within the pray...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
5 Tiff files

378. EAP749/19/3/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/8
Title:
Small hand cymbals: ཏིང་བཤགས་ (wylie ting bshags) Late 20th century
Scope & Content:
A pair of small hand cymbals. 70 mm in diameter and decorated with the eight auspicous symbols of Tibetan Buddhism. One pair hand cymbals 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 a...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
4 Tiff files

379. EAP749/19/3/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/19/3/9
Title:
A Buchen hat in two sections (Thod)་ཐོད Late 20th century
Scope & Content:
180mm wide. The woollen cap that forms the base for the whole hat and a number of lengths of cloth and silk that are the ribbon like streamers that typify the meme Buchen headdress. One Buchen hat The material is owned by Meme Sonam Palden and has been handed down from father to son through sev...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
3 Tiff files

380. EAP749/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP749/20
Title:
Cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
Scope & Content:
The "archive" belonging to a dormant Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsuldim Zangmo. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include three religious scroll paintings (thangka) one illustrating a particular story ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
17th century-20th century
Extent:
87 Tiff files