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21. EAP1221/21/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/1/4
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. A text for a ritual to remove obstacles for people over 60 years old ལོ་རྒན་གྲུག་བཅུའི་སྐག་གྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། or more correctly as ལོ་རྒན་དྲུག་ཅུའི་སྐག་གྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། ལོ་རྒན old, old pers...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
18

22. EAP1221/21/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/1/5
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. No title page. A text for a ritual to be performed if nagas are harming people. A ritual for the queen of the nagas that involves a thread cross exorcism / ransom (མདོས) . མཚོ་སྨན་དགུ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
20

23. EAP1221/21/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/1/6
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. No title page. A prayer to the goddess Kali to remove obstacles. A text for a ritual that includes making a thread cross or a dough sculptural effigy as a ransom. ནག་མོ་སྤྱི་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
32

24. EAP1221/21/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/3
Title:
རྐང་གླིང
Scope & Content:
A human thighbone trumpet. A section of the shaft is partially bound in copper wire and leather. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Attached is cloth of five colours, and a blue-green cloth. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet. Size and dimensions of original material: 28 cm long. ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century
Extent:
1

25. EAP1221/21/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/5
Title:
རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲི་གུག
Scope & Content:
A ritual knife with curved blade and with vajra attachments. A tantric ceremonial symbolic weapon, a tool of the gods. Iron, bronze and wood. Extent: One ritual knife. Size and dimensions of original material: 29 cm long 10 cm wide at its maximun. 3 cm deep. Condition of original material: Dark...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
4

26. EAP1221/21/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/8
Title:
དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:
A long thin rectangular wooden block, carved with dozens of animal and human figures and symbols, used for making imprints of figures or symbols into tantric ritual offerings made from tsampa (barley dough). The figures on this dough mould are used in many different chowa rituals. A small handle ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
22

27. EAP1221/21/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/9
Title:
དགཉ་བླུག
Scope & Content:
An iron box ladle and iron spoon used in tantric fire ceremonies (exorcisms) to pour butter or hot mustard oil on to a sacrificial fire (as prescribed in the relevant text). Extent: One box ladle and one spoon. Size and dimensions of original material: Ladle is 85 cm long and 12 cm wide at its wi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
7

28. EAP1221/21/1/20

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/1/20
Title:
དཔེ་ཆ
Scope & Content:
A handwritten books of Tibetan texts written on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script with some "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A book containing eight hand copied texts bound together in one volume, texts that were becoming unreadable because of age: མི་ཁ་རྒྱ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
88

29. EAP1221/21/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/1
Title:
རྡོ་རྗེ་ and དྲིལ་བུ
Scope & Content:
A modern vajra / dorje and bell. A ritual object and musical instrument used together in tantric rituals. Extent: One vajra / dorje and bell.Size and dimensions of original material: Bell is 16 cm long and 9 cm across. Vajra is 11 x 3 x 3 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition. Custo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 20th century
Extent:
1

30. EAP1221/21/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1221/21/2/2
Title:
Two horns
Scope & Content:
Two animal horns. According to the owner, these are the horns of mythical creatures. Both coming from the realm of the nagas and originally from Tibet. Two rare and special objects, used for rituals and blessings. The twisted black horn, covered in leather, the horn of a "water horse" (water unic...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
12