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1. EAP1016/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1
Title:
The family collection of Pema Choephel [18th century-Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
The family collection of Pema Choephel held in Bangalore India. A collection of Lama Mani objects, thangkas and texts belonging to Pema Choephel's late father Buchen Pema Tsewang. A collection of items passed down through generations of Lama Mani in Tibet and brought to India where Buchen Pema T...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable and Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century-20th century
Extent:
1138 TIFF images

2. EAP1016/1/3/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/5
Title:
༄༅། །ཡུལ་མྱང་བསྟོད་ཀྱི་དཔོན་མོ་སྣང་ས་འོད་བདེ་འབུམ་མའི་རྣམས་ཐར་བཞུཌ་སྷྱོ། [18th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: yul myang bstod kyi dpon mo snang sa 'od bde 'bum ma'i rnams thar bzhud shyo bshugs so. The story of Nangsa Öbum. A text in Umed script (Wylie dbu med), handwritten on handmade paper of varying thickness. Some sheets, now separating are three thin layers laminated together. Size approx 37...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
160 TIFF images

3. EAP1016/1/3/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/3
Title:
༄༅། ་་་་་་་སྣངས་ས་འོད་བདེ་འབུཾ་མའི་རྣཾས་ཐར་བྱོལ་སོང་ཤ་བའི་ལུས་སླང་ཚུལ་བཞུགས་སྷོ་ བཀྲིས་ཤོག [18th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: snang sa ’od bde ’bum ma’i rnam thar byol song sha ba’i lus slang tshul bzhugs so. ...bkra shi shog. This seems to be the story of Nangsa Öbum in a previous life, a previous incarnation as a deer. A short text written in Tibetan Umed script (Wylie dbu med), handwritten on handmade paper o...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
16 TIFF images

4. EAP1016/1/3/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/4
Title:
༄༅། ། མགྲོའ་འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོའི་རྣམས་ཐར་ངོ་ཚར་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་སླབས་ཕྲེངས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུཌ་སྷྱོ། [18th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: mkha’ ’gro ’gro ba bzang mo’i rnam thar ngo mtshar rgya mtsho’i slabs phrengs zhes bya ba bzhugs so. The story of Drowa Zangmo. A text written in Tibetan Umed script (Wylie dbu med), handwritten on handmade paper of varying thickness. 360 x 75 mm. Creation dates: Actual date of text unkno...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
76 TIFF images

5. EAP1016/1/1/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/12
Title:
An iron pointer [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
An iron pointer. Chak Dhar ལྕགས་མདའ (Wylie lcags mda') A key item for all Lama Manipas, used to indicate key scenes of the story being told that are depicted on a narrative thangka . 88 cm long, decorated with attachments including a white scarf (katak), red string, and a multicoloured cloth wit...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 TIFF images

6. EAP1016/1/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/2
Title:
༄༅། རྒྱལ་པོ་དྲི་མེད་ཀུན་ལྡན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགསོ།། [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugaso (wylie transliteration of the actual title, which is a slighly shortened form of the more commonly found title rgyal po dri med kun ldan gyi rnam thar bzhugs so). The biography of (Dharma) King Drimed Kunden. This is one of the Indian Jātak...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
101 TIFF images

7. EAP1016/1/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/1
Title:
A conch [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A conch. Dung. Tib. དུང (Wylie dung) or (Dharma) conch. Chö dung. Tib. ཆོས་དུང (Wylie chos dung) A plain undecorated conch shell used to attract an audience and announce the beginning of a Lama Mani performance. Red and green patterned cloth and beads attached. 18 x 10cm.. Creation dates: Early ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

8. EAP1016/1/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/3
Title:
A bronze mirror [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A bronze mirror. Melong མེ་ལོང་ (Wylie Me long). 13 x 7.5 cm. The mirror is used by the Lord of Death in Buchen performances in Spiti as a karmic mirror, relecting the life and the good and bad deeds of someone who has just died. Whether it was used in Lama Mani readings is unknown. This particu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

9. EAP1016/1/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/2
Title:
A dagger [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A dagger. Dorje Phurpa རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) Three faced dagger, made from bronze and iron, 21.5 cm long. An object commonly used in tantric ritual performances. The main section of the handle is in the form of a dorje (skt vajra) with a mythological creature (a makara) at the j...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
9 TIFF images

10. EAP1016/1/3/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/6
Title:
༄༅། །ཁྱེའུ་པདྨ་འོད་འབར་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ། ། [Mid 20th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: khye'u padma 'od 'bar gyi rnam thar bzhugs so. The story of Pema Öbar. An account of a previous life of the great Indian yogi Padmasambhava, of whom Pema Öbar is an incarnation. A woodblock text printed in Kalimpong in Sikkim approx 50 years old and bought to India. Tibetan Uchen script (...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
Mid 20th century
Extent:
237 TIFF images