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. An exorcism ritual involving the making of a sculpted dough offering (lud) of a black figure (སྟོ་ནག ) (Tib. སྟོ་ནག་ཚན་མི་འབྲ་ཟོར་མ་ངོས་ཀྱིས་བཟློག་འགྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. sto nag t...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. མདོས་ཀྱི་གསལ་བྱེད་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་མེ་ལོངས་བཞུགས་སོ། A text explaining the different མདོས་ (wylie mdos pron.dö) which are either dough sculptures of human or animal forms, made by chowa...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual performed by Chowa, that involves making a dough sculptural offering (Tib. མདོས wylie mdos), a ransom effigy, in this case as a black figure. A special kind o...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is a text for a ritual to cure an individual whose problems are caused by evil spirits. The cure is undertaking Palden Lhamo’s puja. This ritual includes the making of a doug...
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).