An astrological thangka/ divination chart, used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates for an individual, depending on their day, month and year of birth. Made from handmade paper coated in a wheat paste gesso ground. Stored in a wooden tube with copper end pieces. Image shows zodiacal ye...
A cloth pouch and assorted beans of three colours: black, white and red-brown. The beans are used with the astrological thangka, a counting tool to assist with divination. Extent: One pouch and numerous beans. Size and dimensions of original material: Pouch is 15 cm x 7 cm.
A wooden dough mould, carved with numerous figures and symbols: human and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and symbols, nagas. The figures and symbols are pressed into ritual dough offerimgs (torma) during tantric ceremonies. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimensions of original...
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 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. The text for a long life cermony. Performed primarily by full monks in monasteries. ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་འཆི་མེད་ཐིག་ལེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound boo...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ceremony to the three jewels, to the deities and to the other realms of existence. མཆོད་སྦྱིན་བསིལ་གཏོར་གངྒའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་གཏོར་མའི་རིམ་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། A section ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The text for a ritual to restore an individual's health. ལུས་བསོ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། (Tib. ལུས་གསོ་བ་ Wylie. lus gso ba) means nourish the body, restore health. Extent: One unbound book c...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological (horary astrological) text, a precious compendium summarising the Tibetan system of horary astrology, (Tib. འབྲས་རྩིས་ Wylie 'bras rtsis ) a system used for progno...