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EAP1221/10/1/8
- Record Id:
- 040-004549060
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549051
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553676.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/10/1/8
- 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 handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, with additional text writen in blue biro at the end in "headless" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual named after the harmful spirit / consuming demon/ gobbling vampire Za dre (Tib. ཟ་འདྲེ་Wylie. za 'dre). The ritual is commonly performed after the death of a villager, as instructed by an astrologer who suggests the direction in which the spirit/consciousness has gone. Other households in the villlage with their main door facing in this direction will also perform the ritual. འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་མཛད་པའི་ཟ་འདྲེའི་ཁ་སྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 54 cm x 7.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Light staining through age and usage. 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:
- 032-004549051
036-004549052
040-004549060 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/10 : Urgyen Thinley Collection
EAP1221/10/1 : Ritual and astrological texts
EAP1221/10/1/8 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549051[0001]/036-004549052[0008]/040-004549060
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/10
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 8
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-10-1-8
- 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.
- 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 Tenzin Chhoephel Spiti
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)