Archival records from Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers (EAP1016)
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A conch [Early 18th century]
A conch. Dung. Tib. དུང (Wylie dung) or (Dharma) conch. Chö dung. Tib. ཆོས་དུང (Wylie chos dung) A plain undecorated conch shell used to attract an…
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A dagger [Early 18th century]
A dagger. Dorje Phurpa རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ (Wylie rdo rje phur pa) Three faced dagger, made from bronze and iron, 21.5 cm long. An object commonly used…
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A bronze mirror [Early 18th century]
A bronze mirror. Melong མེ་ལོང་ (Wylie Me long). 13 x 7.5 cm. The mirror is used by the Lord of Death in Buchen performances in Spiti as a karmic…
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A copper box [Early 18th century]
A copper box. Kau གའུ་ (Wylie ga’u) 12 x 9.5 x 4 cm ( 12 x 15 x 4 with edges) A pendant box worn around the neck or occasionally on the lower back…
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A silver fronted copper box [Early 18th century]
A silver fronted copper box. གའུ་ (Wylie ga’u) 11 x 8 x 4 cm. A pendant box worn around the neck or occasionally on the lower back. A reliquary box…
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Bell and Dorje. Nine pronged Dorje [Early 18th century]
Bell and Dorje. Nine pronged Dorje རྡོ་རྗེ་ (Wylie rdo rje) or Dorje tsegu རྡོ་རྗེ་ (rdo rje rtse dgu). Dorje is 12.5 cm long. Bell. Drilbu དྲིལ་བུ…
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A copper and brass Prayer wheel with long wooden handle [Early 18th century]
A copper and brass Prayer wheel with long wooden handle. Mane Lhakor མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར་ (Wylie maNi lag bskor) 61 cm long. The box is 12.5 cm across…
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A statue of the future Buddha (Maitreya) [Early 18th century]
A statue of the future Buddha (Maitreya). Jampa. བྱམས་པ་ (Wylie byams pa) or Lord Maitreya Jampé Gönpo བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་ (Wylie byams pa'i mgon…
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A wooden drinking cup [Early 18th century]
A wooden drinking cup in the form of a bowl with silver decorations around its base and a decorated silver lid, 10 cm across. . Creation dates:…
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Red woollen hat [Early 18th century]
Hat. A simple red woollen hat in the form of a single piece of knitted material worn by Lama Manipa during performances / narrations . Creation…
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A three legged folding iron support, two brass bowls, three beaded circular ring supports and a wooden ornament [Early 18th century]
A three legged folding iron support, two brass bowls, three beaded circular ring supports and a wooden ornament. Together these items form a…
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An iron pointer [Early 18th century]
An iron pointer. Chak Dhar ལྕགས་མདའ (Wylie lcags mda') A key item for all Lama Manipas, used to indicate key scenes of the story being told…
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One brass spoon and one copper spoon and copper bowls [Early 18th century]
One brass spoon and one copper spoon and copper bowls. Spoons 16 and 22 cm long. Copper bowls ( 12 and 14 cm across) The copper bowls held water or…
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An undecorated (Dharma) conch shell [Late 19th century]
An undecorated (Dharma) conch shell. Chö dung ཆོས་དུང (Wylie chos dung). Conches are used to announce the arrival of Lama Mani or the start of…
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A brass ritual thunderbolt, Vajra in Sanskrit or Dorje in Tibetan [Late 19th century]
A brass ritual thunderbolt, Vajra in Sanskrit or Dorje in Tibetan. རྡོ་རྗེ (Wylie rdo rje). 12.5 cm long. . Creation dates: Probably late 19th…
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