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EAP1221/8/2/2
- Record Id:
- 040-004549046
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549013
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553662.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/8/2/2
- Title:
- perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ།
- Additional Titles:
-
perhaps rin chen Da ru
A composite of metal, a file and a bell shaped mould for making shapes into tsampa dough
- Scope & Content:
- The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings.
Extent: One artefact.
Size and dimensions of original material: The file and the composite metal artefact are each 13 cm long, the bell 3 cm long.
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).
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004549013
036-004549044
040-004549046 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/8 : Nyima Dorje Collection
EAP1221/8/2 : Ritual artefacts
EAP1221/8/2/2 : perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ། - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549013[0002]/036-004549044[0002]/040-004549046
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/8
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-8-2-2 (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:
- Artefacts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)