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31. EAP1221/8/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/2
Title:
perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ།
Scope & Content:
The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original m...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
2

32. EAP1221/8/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/1/9
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual off...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
72

33. EAP1221/8/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/8/2/3
Title:
ཕུར་བ་
Scope & Content:
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1