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EAP749/2
- Record Id:
- 032-003317844
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003317844
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034269426.0x000028
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP749/2
- Title:
- The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Chhettan Dorje
- Scope & Content:
-
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Meme Chhettan Dorje. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern western-style bound books (teb); religious scroll paintings (thangka) often illustrating a particular story (namthar thangka); the elaborate costume of a head Buchen; musical instruments; statues; and other religious, ritual and performance-related items. Buchen are actors, storytellers, exorcists and occasional healers. They are lay religious practitioners whose role is to spread the Dharma (teachings of the Buddha) often through entertainment. The written texts are primarily edifying biographies (namthar) of Buddhist saints or tales of Delok, those who have entered the netherworld between life and death, witnessed the realms of hell and come back to report .
The material is owned by Meme Chettan Dorje 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 the house.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Texts, paintings and other material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003317844", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP749/2: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Chhettan Dorje" },{ "id" : "036-003317845", "parent" : "032-003317844", "text" : "EAP749/2/1: Texts (pecha)" },{ "id" : "040-003317846", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/1: ༄། །ཁྱེའུ་པདྨ་འོད་འབར་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The…" },{ "id" : "040-003317847", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/2: ༄། །གུ་རུ་ཆོས་དབང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Guru…" },{ "id" : "040-003317848", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/3: ༄།…" },{ "id" : "040-003317849", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/4: ༄། །དྲག་པོ་རྟ་མགྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔ།། Tamdrin (text) (Wylie drag po rta mgrin lha lnga).…" },{ "id" : "040-003317850", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/5: བསྒྲལ་ཆོག Dal Chog (Wylie bsgral chog). A tantric text and sacred book. One of the most important Buchen texts.…" },{ "id" : "040-003317851", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/6: རྡོ་བཤད་བཞུགས་སོ།། Do Shed Zhugs So. Explanation of the stone breaking ritual that is recited prior…" },{ "id" : "040-003317852", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/7: གདུགས་དཀར་བཟློག་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Dugkar dogpa zhugs so. White umbrella ( a wrathful…" },{ "id" : "040-003317853", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/8:…" },{ "id" : "040-003317854", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/9: ་གླིང་ས་ཆོས་སྐྱིད The story of Delok Lingza Choskyit Mid 19th Centuy" },{ "id" : "040-003317855", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/10: མི་ཁ་བསྒྲལ་བཟློག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།་་ Alternatively…" },{ "id" : "040-003317856", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/11:…" },{ "id" : "040-003317857", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/12:…" },{ "id" : "040-003317858", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/13: ༄། །དྲག་པོ་རྟ་མགྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔ།། (Wylie drag po rta mgrin lha lnga) Another Tamdrin…" },{ "id" : "040-003317859", "parent" : "036-003317845", "text" : "EAP749/2/1/14: ༄།…" },{ "id" : "036-003317860", "parent" : "032-003317844", "text" : "EAP749/2/2: Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)" },{ "id" : "040-003317861", "parent" : "036-003317860", "text" : "EAP749/2/2/1: Thangka of Tamdrin Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317862", "parent" : "036-003317860", "text" : "EAP749/2/2/2: Thangka of Padma Odbar Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "036-003317863", "parent" : "032-003317844", "text" : "EAP749/2/3: Objects" },{ "id" : "040-003317864", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/1: Dagger: Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317865", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/2: Ritual Thunderbolt: Nine headed vajra/ dorje Dorje tsegu (Wylie rdo rje rtse dgu) རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩེ་དགུ Bell:…" },{ "id" : "040-003317866", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/3: Cymbals: Bubchel (Wylie sbubs ’chal) སྦུབས་འཆལ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317867", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/4: Charm Box: Kau (Wylie ga’u) གའུ། or Nam thak (Wylie rnam thag) རྣམ་ཐག Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317868", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/5: Ear ornaments: Pendap (Wylie pad ’dab) པད་འདབ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317869", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/6: Charm Box: Kau (Wylie ga’u) གའུ། or Nam thak (Wylie rnam thag) རྣམ་ཐག Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317870", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/7: Swords: Ralti (Wylie ral gri) རལ་གྲི Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317871", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/8: Iron pointer: Chak Dhar (Wylie lcags mda'') ལྕགས་མདའ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317872", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/9: Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317873", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/10: Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317874", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/11: Water bowls: ing (Wylie ting) ཏིང Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317875", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/12: Trident headed skewers: Katamka (Wylie khtraMm kha) ཁཏྲཾམ་ཁ (Or Trishul (Wylie tri shul) ཏྲི་ཤུལ Mid 19th…" },{ "id" : "040-003317876", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/13: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Early 21st Century" },{ "id" : "040-003317877", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/14: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Early 21st Century" },{ "id" : "040-003317878", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/15: Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317879", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/16: Necklace: Oltic (Wylie ol tig) ཨོལ་ཏིག Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317880", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/17: Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Approx 1850" },{ "id" : "040-003317881", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/18: Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Early 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003317882", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/19: Trident headed skewers: Katamka (Wylie khtraMm kha) ཁཏྲཾམ་ཁ (Or Trishul (Wylie tri shul) ཏྲི་ཤུལ Approx…" },{ "id" : "040-003317883", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/20: Tod / Buchen Hat Early 20th Century" },{ "id" : "040-003317884", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/21: Wooden printing block Par Shing Early 20th Century" },{ "id" : "040-003317885", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/22: Needle cloth and metal Box Late 20th Century" },{ "id" : "040-003317886", "parent" : "036-003317863", "text" : "EAP749/2/3/23: Conch shell chest ornament: Tonka (Wylie thong ga) ཐོང་ག Mid 19th century" },{ "id" : "036-003317887", "parent" : "032-003317844", "text" : "EAP749/2/4: Portrait" },{ "id" : "040-003317888", "parent" : "036-003317887", "text" : "EAP749/2/4/1: Meme Buchen in full Costume Various" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003317844
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP749/2/1 : Texts (pecha)
EAP749/2/2 : Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
EAP749/2/3 : Objects
EAP749/2/4 : Portrait
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- 032-003317844
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP749/2
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1004 Tiff images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP749-2
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 17th century-20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Latitude (Decimal):
- 31.959165
- Longitude (Decimal):
- 78.032652
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Access is for research purposes only
- Custodial History:
- The digital images in this collection were created as part of the EAP749 ''The narrative and ritual texts, narrative paintings and other performance related material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India - major project''
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from project holder Professor Patrick Sutherland, February 2016 (Accession record EAP749/1)
- Administrative Context:
- EAP749 was funded by Endangered Archives Programme. This collection created digital copies of records owned by Meme Chhettan Dorje
- Information About Copies:
- Copies of this material are located at the British Library and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala
- Information About Originals:
- Original copies owned by Meme Chhettan Dorje, Sangnam , Pin Valley
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)