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EAP1221/17/1/1
- Record Id:
- 040-004549217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004549215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100188553854.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP1221/17/1/1
- 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:
- An unbound woodblock printed Tibetan medical text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Entitled: དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྣོ་མཐོང་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དེའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་དང་བཅས་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། A divination (རྣོ་མཐོང) text used by a village amchis (Tibetan doctors) but also by lamas in monasteries. The text is consulted through the female protector deity Palden Lhamo (Shri Devi / Mahakala) This ritual text is used with dice, to indicate which page of the text to consult མོ་ divination དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོ One of many names for Palden Lhamo.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 58 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 24.5 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: The front page is torn in the top right corner. Staining, marks and discolouration throughout but the text is clear and legible throughout.
Custodial history: A single amchi (medical) divination text inherited from his great grandfather.Arrangement: An individual text kept in the prayer room of the family home.
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Culturally-Tibetan Household Archives of Spiti
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004549215
036-004549216
040-004549217 - Is part of:
- EAP1221/17 : Sonam Dorje Collection
EAP1221/17/1 : Medical texts
EAP1221/17/1/1 : དཔེ་ཆ - Hierarchy:
- 032-004549215[0001]/036-004549216[0001]/040-004549217
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP1221/17
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 116
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP1221-17-1-1
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1940
- Date Range:
- Early 20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- CC BY-NC.
- Arrangement:
- An individual text kept in the prayer room of the family home
- 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 Sonam Dorje in Spiti
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)