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11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. EAP1016/1/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/4
Title:
A copper box [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A copper box. Kau གའུ་ (Wylie ga’u) 12 x 9.5 x 4 cm ( 12 x 15 x 4 with edges) A pendant box worn around the neck or occasionally on the lower back. A reliquary box, charm box or amulet used to hold religious objects such as small deity statues or printed paper mantras. . Creation dates: Early 18...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

15. EAP1016/1/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/5
Title:
A silver fronted copper box [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A silver fronted copper box. གའུ་ (Wylie ga’u) 11 x 8 x 4 cm. A pendant box worn around the neck or occasionally on the lower back. A reliquary box, charm box or amulet used to hold religious objects such as small deity statues or printed paper mantras. . Creation dates: Early 18th century. Actu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
4 TIFF images

16. EAP1016/1/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/3/1
Title:
༄༅། ལྷ་སྲས་ནོར་བུ་བཟང་པོའི་སྣོམ་ཐར་ངོ་ཚར་ཞིང་སྣོད་ལྷ་་་་་་་་་་་་་རོལ་རྩེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སྷོ; ནོར་བཟང་རྣམ་ཐར་ [18th century]
Scope & Content:
Wylie: lha sras nor bu bzang po’i rnam thar ngo mtshar zhing snod lha ….. rol rtsed zhes bya ba bzhugs so. Additionally an abridged title has been added, written in a second hand …..nor bzang rnam thar bzhugs so. The biography of (Dharma King) Norzang. A long text written in Tibetan Umed script ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Tibetan
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
336 TIFF images

17. EAP1016/1/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/6
Title:
Bell and Dorje. Nine pronged Dorje [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
Bell and Dorje. Nine pronged Dorje རྡོ་རྗེ་ (Wylie rdo rje) or Dorje tsegu རྡོ་རྗེ་ (rdo rje rtse dgu). Dorje is 12.5 cm long. Bell. Drilbu དྲིལ་བུ་ (Wylie dril bu) Bell is 18.5 cm long and 10cm in diameter. . Creation dates: Early 18th century. Actual date unknown but suggested by current owner...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
3 TIFF images

18. EAP1016/1/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/10
Title:
Red woollen hat [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
Hat. A simple red woollen hat in the form of a single piece of knitted material worn by Lama Manipa during performances / narrations . Creation dates: Early 18th century. Date suggested by current owner. Custodial history: An item owned by the family of Buchen Pema Tsewang and passed down throu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 TIFF images

19. EAP1016/1/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/1/9
Title:
A wooden drinking cup [Early 18th century]
Scope & Content:
A wooden drinking cup in the form of a bowl with silver decorations around its base and a decorated silver lid, 10 cm across. . Creation dates: Early 18th century. Date suggested by current owner. Custodial history: An item owned by the family of Buchen Pema Tsewang and passed down through gene...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
7 TIFF images

20. EAP1016/1/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1016/1/2/1
Title:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) [Late 19th century-Early 20th century]
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan Thangka (cloth scroll painting) ཐང་ཀ་ (Wylie thang ka). Size approx 63 x 83 cm (max) with image area (Melong) approx 43 x 71 cm (max). A very simple plain cloth surround with a red section above and below the middle of the image area. Images of eight Deities. Minor paint loss from crea...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
12 TIFF images