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EAP1221/4/2/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004548952
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004548948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553552.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/4/2/1
- Title:
- དཔར་ཤིང
- Additional Titles:
-
dpar shing
A wooden dough mould
- Scope & Content:
- A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made from barley dough, and known as torma (tib. གཏོར་མ wylie. gtor ma) for used in tantric rituals, especially ransom/exorcism rituals. The dough moulds are also known in other parts of the Tibetan speaking world as zan par / zen par / sam par (tib. ཟན་དཔར wylie. zan dpar).
Extent: One wooden dough mould.
Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 4 x 3 cm.
Condition of original material: In good condition overall.
Custodial history: Purchased in Bodh Gaya about 50 years ago.
Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room of Chherring Tobgye's house ( not seen). The precise country of origin of the original artefact is unknown. However it was almost certainly created in Tibet.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004548948
036-004548951
040-004548952 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/4 : Chherring Tobgye Collection
EAP1221/4/2 : Ritual artefacts
EAP1221/4/2/1 : དཔར་ཤིང - Hierarchy:
- 032-004548948[0002]/036-004548951[0001]/040-004548952
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/4
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 4
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-4-2-1
- Thumbnail:
-
- 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:
- Kept in the prayer room of Chherring Tobgye's house ( not seen)
- 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 the Chherring Tobgye, Spiti
- Material Type:
- Artefacts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)