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EAP1221/8/1/9
- Record Id:
- 040-004549023
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549013
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553634.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/8/1/9
- 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 handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual offering sculpted from tsampa (barley dough) which in this ritual contains medicine. (Tib ཀླུ་གཏོར་ཆོ་ག་སོགས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. klu gtor cho ga sogs zhes bya ba bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 36 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 40.5 cm x 7.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Discoloration throughout through age and usage. Some text highlighted in yellow.
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
040-004549023 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/8 : Nyima Dorje Collection
EAP1221/8/1 : Ritual texts
EAP1221/8/1/9 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549013[0001]/036-004549014[0009]/040-004549023
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/8
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 72
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-8-1-9 (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 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)