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EAP1221/8/1/8
- Record Id:
- 040-004549022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549013
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553632.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/8/1/8
- 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 a mix of modern and handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a ceremony for the eight great deities: a ritual making offerings to the eight great deities (Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱད) in order to fulfil wishes.(Tib ༄༅། །བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་སང་ཁྲོས་པའི་ལེས་བྱང་རྒྱུན་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། or perhaps better as ༄༅། །བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་གསང་ཁྲོས་པའི་ལས་བྱང་རྒྱུན་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie bka' brgyad yang sang khros pa'i les byang rgyun 'khyer bzhugs so / bka' brgyad yang gsang khros pa'i las byang rgyun 'khyer bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of eleven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Larger folios are 43 cm x 9 cm, smaller folios are 35 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: The first folios are on a different size and kind of paper and have damaged edges. The later folios have many marks in red pen.
Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well respected practitioners and would travel widely to undertake tantric rituals.
Arrangement: All the material was kept in the prayer room of Nyima Dorje's house (unseen). 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:
- 032-004549013
036-004549014
040-004549022 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/8 : Nyima Dorje Collection
EAP1221/8/1 : Ritual texts
EAP1221/8/1/8 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549013[0001]/036-004549014[0008]/040-004549022
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/8
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 22
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-8-1-8 (opens in a new tab)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1860
- End Date:
- 1970
- Date Range:
- Late 19th century-Mid 20th 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 the material was kept in the prayer room of Nyima Dorje's house (unseen)
- 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 Nyima Dorje Spiti
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)