A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An text about the 27 little stars in the Tibetan astrological system སྐར་རུ་ཆུང་ཡོད།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of six folios. Size and dimensions of original material:...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A ritual concerned with the recently deceased. རོ་ལམ་དམར་ཁྲིད་བཞུགས་སོ། རོ་ལམ means the path of the dead body དམར་ཁྲིད means essential instruction. Extent: One unbound book consis...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Chapter nine of a substantial astrological text with many chapters. རྣམ་ཐར་གྲུབ་མཐའི་རྩིས་གཞུང་མན་ངག་སྐབས་དགུ་དང་དུས་ཀྱིས་སྦྱོར་བ་མེ་ལོང་མངོན་ཤེས་མིའི་ལུགས་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Unidentified text. Title difficult to translate and does not match pages inside. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Eac...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An astrological text and ritual text. Title as written is: པར་ཁ་དཔུངས་ཤིག་པའི་ལྷོ་བཞུགས་སོ། A more correct spelling would be: སྤར་ཁ་སྤུངས་ཤིག་པའི་ལྟོ་བཞུགས་སོ། སྤར་ཁ (parka)refer...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text, covering all the key occasions when astrologers are consulted and perform calculations: for weddings, after the birth of a child, following a death etc. གཙུག...
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 "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological and ritual text སྤར་ཁ་བདན་ཕྱེད་བཞུགས་སྷོ། སྤར་ཁ (parka)refers to the astrological system of trigrams (as in the iChing) of which there are eight. Lamas diagnose pr...
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...