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EAP749/20
- Record Id:
- 032-003318120
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003318120
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034269426.0x00013c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP749/20
- Title:
- Cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
- Scope & Content:
-
The "archive" belonging to a dormant Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Tsuldim Zangmo. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of the house and include three religious scroll paintings (thangka) one illustrating a particular story (namthar thangka); two 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 and thangkas 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 . Buchen performances sometimes have non narrative thangkas displayed and these other thangkas may have been used. Two Series : Thangkas and Other Objects
The material is owned by Tsuldim Zangmo and her daughter Karma Tsomo and was been handed down from Tsudim''s uncle Meme Tenzin Lotey. 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" : "032-003318120", "parent" : "#", "text" : "EAP749/20: Cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye" },{ "id" : "036-003318121", "parent" : "032-003318120", "text" : "EAP749/20/1: Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)" },{ "id" : "040-003318122", "parent" : "036-003318121", "text" : "EAP749/20/1/1: A narrative thangka illustrating a Buchen story, perhaps of Nangsa Odbum Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318123", "parent" : "036-003318121", "text" : "EAP749/20/1/2: Probably a medicine Buddha thangka Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318124", "parent" : "036-003318121", "text" : "EAP749/20/1/3: Thangka of Shakyamuni Buddha Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "036-003318125", "parent" : "032-003318120", "text" : "EAP749/20/2: Objects" },{ "id" : "040-003318126", "parent" : "036-003318125", "text" : "EAP749/20/2/1: Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318127", "parent" : "036-003318125", "text" : "EAP749/20/2/2: Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Early 19th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318128", "parent" : "036-003318125", "text" : "EAP749/20/2/3: Conch / (Dharma) conch: Chö dun (Wylie chos dung) ཆོས་དུང Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318129", "parent" : "036-003318125", "text" : "EAP749/20/2/4: Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Mid 18th century" },{ "id" : "040-003318130", "parent" : "036-003318125", "text" : "EAP749/20/2/5: Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Mid 19th century" }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003318120
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- EAP749/20/1 : Cloth scroll painting (thangkas)
EAP749/20/2 : Objects
Click here to View / search full list of parts of EAP749/20 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003318120
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP749/20
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 87 Tiff files
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP749-20
- 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 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)