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EAP749/19
- Record Id:
- 032-003318105
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003318105
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034269426.0x00012d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP749/19
- Title:
- The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
- Scope & Content:
-
The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Sonam Palden. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of a modern 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. Not all the material seen for the survey was available to document, it had been borrowed by other Buchen. 3 Series : Texts, Thangkas and Other Objects
The material is owned by Meme Sonam Palden 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 a modern house.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Texts, paintings and other material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003318105", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP749/19: The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye" },{ "id" : "036-003318106", "parent" : "032-003318105", "text" : "EAP749/19/1: Texts (pecha)" },{ "id" : "040-003318107", "parent" : "036-003318106", "text" : "EAP749/19/1/1: ༄།…" },{ "id" : "036-003318108", "parent" : "032-003318105", "text" : "EAP749/19/2: Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)" },{ "id" : "040-003318109", "parent" : "036-003318108", "text" : "EAP749/19/2/1: མཁའ་འགྲོའི་བུ་མོ་འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོ༏ The story of Kandroma Drowa Zangmo (Wylie…" },{ "id" : "036-003318110", "parent" : "032-003318105", "text" : "EAP749/19/3: Objects" },{ "id" : "040-003318111", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/1: Dagger: Dorje Phorba (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318112", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/2: Conch shell chest ornament: Tonka (Wylie thong ga) ཐོང་ག Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318113", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/3: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318114", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/4: Five Buddha Family (Hat): Gyalwa Rig Nga (Wylie rgyal ba rigs lnga) རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ Early 21st century" },{ "id" : "040-003318115", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/5: Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318116", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/6: Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318117", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/7: Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Late 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318118", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/8: Small hand cymbals: ཏིང་བཤགས་ (wylie ting bshags) Late 20th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318119", "parent" : "036-003318110", "text" : "EAP749/19/3/9: A Buchen hat in two sections (Thod)་ཐོད Late 20th century" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003318105
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP749/19/1 : Texts (pecha)
EAP749/19/2 : Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
EAP749/19/3 : Objects
Click here to View / search full list of parts of EAP749/19 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003318105
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP749/19
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 212 Tiff files
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP749-19
- Thumbnail:
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- 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 Tsering Tobgye
- 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:
- The original material remains with Meme Tsering Tobgye
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)