The household collection of Dorje Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts and a single wedding speech text. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
A Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is...
The household collection of Tsering Norbu. A collection of medical texts and Spiti wedding song and speech texts.Custodial history: Material handed down from the current owner's father.Arrangement: A series of amchi (Tibetan medical) texts, kept in the owner's prayer room (not seen). Plus a singl...
An untitled text. But this is the stone text, an instructional document explaining the eighty stones, an important ritual performed during large traditinal Spiti weddings. (Tib. ཐོ་རབས་བརྒྱད་བཅུ Wylie tho rabs brgyad bcu) The document illustrates how to set up the Tho, the piles of stones, of whi...
The household collection of Gatuk Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An offering ritual for the mountain gods བཙན་གསོལ་བཞུགས་སོ། བཙན means mountain spirits གསོལ means make offering. Extent: One unbound book consisting of eight folios. Size and dimensions of original ...
The household collection of Onpo Tenzin Takpa. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Custodial history: The older material has been handed down from father to son for at least four generations. Arrangement: All the material is stored in the prayer room (not seen) and was brought out...
