The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are used medicinally, added to tsampa (barley dough) then made into edible tantric ritual offerings. Extent: One artefact. Size and dimensions of original m...
A three sided brass dagger (phur ba or dorje phur ba) wrapped in cloth. Though the face of the deity is no longer clearly recognisable, the small horse head at the top of the handle indicates this is the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva (Tib.རྟ་མགྲིན་ Wylie rta mgrin), commonly invoked in Tantr...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual to protect against the dangers posed by vampiresses, ogresses or cannibals (Tib. སྲིན་མོ Wylie. srin mo) when travelling. Srin mo are dangerous flesh eating, b...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual performance to appease nagas through making a ritual offering of a Lud, a dough ransom effigy figure of a person (Tib.གླུད་ Wylie glud), or a thread cross offe...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Yang gug (Tib. གཡང་འགུགས Wylie. g.yang 'gugs) A ritual for summoning the forces of prosperity གཡང་འགུགས་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Si...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual for the Lord of the Earth / Earth god (Tib.ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag) Performed to prevent annoying the Earth Lord, when building the foundations for houses and dis...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A mika ritual. A ritual for turning back the effects malicious gossip, which can have damaging effects. མི་ཁ་དྲག་གྲུབ་བཞུགས་སོ། མི་ཁ་ person mouth = malicious gossip དྲག་ mean wra...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual for the Earth god, nagas and other earth dwelling non humans ས་བདག་ཀླུའི་བྱད་གྲོལ་དང་གདོན་གྲོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of six folios. S...