A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text dealing with calculations, readings and predictions following death. ཤིན་རྩི་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཤིན་རྩི astrology of death གསལ་བ appearing མེ་ལོང mirror. Extent: O...
The household collection of Chherring Palden. A collection of ritual texts and artefacts. Arrangement: All the material was kept in a box in the prayer room (unseen).
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script and "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is perhaps a text for a ritual following death. After consultation with a tsipa / chowa, details are given for which direction the con...
The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text with a decorated cover page. This text is for a ritual for the transference of consciousness (pho wa). Used primarily after death. This is a common ritual commissioned after the death...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A purification and liberation ritual conducted after a death, perhaps including the ritual use of bones, post-cremation. ༄༅། །བྱང་གྲོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཙུག་གཏོར་གྱི་བགྲུབས་ཐབས་སྙིང་པོ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཞེས་བ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on thick almost leather like, handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A funereal ritual conducted for the deceased when the body is left for sky burial or interred. The title mentions the thread cross (Tib. མདོས Wylie mdos) used as a ritual ...