A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An additional commentary on the illuminated text from the same household collection (EAP1221_HNS_TTL_TXT-2),which itself is a commentary on the third medical tantra, the oral trad...
A Tibetan text (pecha) written on handmade paper consisting of folded sheets which are held together with thread. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is (Tib སྐྱེམ་གསོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Wylie skyem gsol bzhugs so) Perhaps written more correctly as སྐྱེམས་གསོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། This ...
The household collection of Chherring Dorje. A collection of medical texts and medical artefacts.Custodial history: All items handed down from grandfather to father to son for over six generationsand probably many more.Arrangement: All items are kept in the prayer room of Chherring Dorje (not seen).
The household collection of Phuntsog Namgyal. A collection of wedding song texts.Custodial history: The Collection of Spiti song texts belongs to Phuntsog Namgyal from Kibber. His father Nawang Dorje was a famous nyahon (Spiti singer) as was his grandfather Sonam Tseten. Serku did not become a ny...
The household collection of Nyima Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts.Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well resp...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual off...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a text for a mika ritual, a ceremony to counteract the effects of malicious gossip (mi ka). A ceremony conducted inside a house involving the making of a dough effigy, an ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Untitled text, but this is the text for a short and common ceremony undertaken by lamas, chowas and lay people. The ritual is an offering, usually of arak (distilled alcohol)barley b...