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EAP1221/1/1/21
- Record Id:
- 040-004548905
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004548883
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553497.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/1/1/21
- Title:
- དཔེ་ཆ
- Additional Titles:
-
dpe cha
A Pecha. A Tibetan book, made of long strips of paper, in imitation of the Indian palm-leaf manuscripts.
- Scope & Content:
- A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for an offering ritual for the four directions: one hundred offerings each of lamps, food, tsa tsa, or a small ransom effigy called a lud (Tib. དྲི་གླུད། Wylie.dri lud) (A small Lud/ransom effigy of a man and a woman made by pressing tsampa dough into a wooden dough mould) This ritual is for eliminating obstacles. If someone is ill then a larger Lud is made. Male if the patient is male, female if the patient is female. The Lud is clothed in the ill person's clothes, fed well, given arak and meat and also finally given to one of the four directions ( most commonly to the East) བརྒྱ་བཞི་བཞུགས་སོ། བརྒྱ་བཞི་ means four hundred.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of seven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 40 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: Staining and discolouration through age. Some pages damaged.
Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004548883
036-004548884
040-004548905 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/1 : Dorje Chherring Collection
EAP1221/1/1 : Ritual texts
EAP1221/1/1/21 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004548883[0001]/036-004548884[0021]/040-004548905
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 14
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-1-1-21 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- Late 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- User Conditions:
- CC BY-NC.
This item is part of the Endangered Archives Programme.
These collections are not available to request in British Library Reading Rooms.
Digital copies can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
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- Arrangement:
- All material is kept in the prayer room
- Information About Copies:
- Digital copies are also held by: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Gangchen Kyishong Dharamsala 176215 HP, India Tel: +91 9218422467
- Information About Originals:
- The original material is located in The household of Dorje Chherring Spiti
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)