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EAP1221/1/1/25
- Record Id:
- 040-004548909
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004548883
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553501.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/1/1/25
- 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. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A Zhi Tro ritual usually undertaken after a death and during the Bardo period.་བཞིས་ཕྲོས་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། better as: བཞིས་གྲོ་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། ཞི་ཁྲོ་ means Zhi Tro, the 100 wrathful and peaceful deities ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན means the protector deity Tamdrin/Hyagryph.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of nine folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 33.5 cm x 8.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Discolouration through age.
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
040-004548909 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/1 : Dorje Chherring Collection
EAP1221/1/1 : Ritual texts
EAP1221/1/1/25 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004548883[0001]/036-004548884[0025]/040-004548909
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 18
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-1-1-25 (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.
If you would like further help, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- 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)