Aims and objectives
This project will locate, survey, and digitise the archives of texts to be found in households belonging to the culturally-Tibetan doctors (amchi); astrologers and tantric ritual practitioners (chowa); wedding singers (nyawon); and speechmakers (molawa) of the Spiti Valley in north India. The material consists primarily of unbound texts (pecha) written in Tibetan scripts: medical, botanical and religious texts belonging to amchi lineages; astrological and ritual texts belonging to chowa lineages; and books of songs and formal speeches belonging to nyawon and molawa lineages.
Outcomes
The records copied by this project have been catalogued as:
- EAP1221/1 Dorje Chherring Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/2 Tsering Norbu Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/3 Sonam Palden Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/4 Chherring Tobgye Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/5 Tsering Tashi Labu Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/6 Chherring Dorje Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/7 Phuntsog Namgya Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/8 Nyima Dorje Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/9 Dorje Gyalpo Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/10 Urgyen Thinley Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/11 Mingyur Tenzin Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/12 Urgyen Tsewang Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/13 Gatuk Chherring Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/14 Chherring Palden Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/15 Thinley Namgyal Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/16 Lobsang Gatuk Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/17 Sonam Dorje Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/18 Sherab Dorje Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/19 Urgyen Chherring Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/20 Thukten Chhoezang Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/21 Tenzin Chhoephel Collection [1800-2023]
- EAP1221/22 Onpo Tenzin Takpa Collection [1800-2023]
Due to the cyber-attack on the British Library in October 2023, the archives and manuscripts database is currently inaccessible and we are unable to provide links to the catalogue records for this project.
