EAP1016/3/3/10

The full title is difficult to decipher but is perhaps །།རྗེ་བཙུན་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་སྤྲུལ་བ་ཨ་ལགས་ཀརྨ་དབང་འཛིན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་རྒྱས་པ་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས་བཞུགས་སོ༏. The full title is difficult to decipher but is perhaps …. Wylie rje btsun rdo rje rnal 'byor ma'i sprul ba a lags karma dbang 'dzin gyi rnam thar rgyas pa phyogs bsdus bzhugs so. The story of Delok Karma Wangzin (Wylie.འདས་ལོག་ཀརྨ་དབང་འཛིན་). An old text, handwritten on hand made paper. The full title is difficult to read because of darkening of the cover page which also has white paper strips attached. Wear and tear has eroded the top page. The cover and first page are darkened with use but otherwise the text is mainly in very good condition overall for its age. Several small pieces of sweet paper wrapping have been added at points within the text as markers, some further highlighted in red pen . The last two pages have been replaced with handwritten text on modern paper. Size 51 cm x 8.5 cm. A text telling the story of the delok Karma Wangzin. Delok stories are key texts for Buchen and Lama Manipa alike. Deloks are ordinary individuals, often female, who suffer illness and apparently die, visit the realms of hell where they witness the judgement of the dead, before returning to join the living and warn them of what potentially awaits. Delok stories offer a clear moral perspective on living a good Buddhist life, describing the principles of karma. This text concludes with advice on how to follow the dharma and live a good Buddhist life for the benefit of all sentient beings, to thereby explain and reinforce the story’s message to the audience.. Creation dates: Late 19th to early 20th Century. 100-150 years.

Custodial history: A text donated to Dolma Ling nunnery by Buchen Gyurme. It probably belonged to one of three Lama Manipa who had fled from Tibet and who continued to perform wihtin the exile Tibetan communities in India and Nepal. These manipa were Buchen Gyurme (Wylie ’Gyur med), Buchen Norgye (Wylie Nor rgyas), and Buchen Passang (Wylie Pa sangs) Specifics of the actual previous ownership unknown.

Extent and format of original material: One text.

Owner(s) of original material: Dolma Ling Nunnery.