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EAP1221/1/2/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004548916
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004548883
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553511.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/1/2/1
- 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 Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is the text for a mola, a traditional welcome speech delivered at weddings, pingris and occasionally at other events. Mola speeches praise all the different groups that make up the community… From high to low, a long list including high lamas, amchi, chowa, women and children. But it also describes the landscape and the necessity of sun to melt the snow and provide water to irrigate the fields A sacred text, a precious speech believed to have been composed by the wisdom deity (Manjushri).
Extent: One book consisting of fourteen folios, folded and stitched.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 24 cm x 18 cm, folding to 25 x 9 cm.
Condition of original material: Perfectly legible though heavily stained by usage. Written in black ink with some red ink. Additional text in blue biro and some Umed script.
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
036-004548915
040-004548916 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/1 : Dorje Chherring Collection
EAP1221/1/2 : Wedding texts
EAP1221/1/2/1 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004548883[0002]/036-004548915[0001]/040-004548916
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/1
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 30
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-1-2-1
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- Late 19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- CC BY-NC.
- 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)