A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A fire ceremony text. A ritual fire offering made by burning different types of food and precious things, often undertaken after a period of mantra recitation in a retreat and accompanied by elaborate...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A tantric ritual involving the construction of a large three sided torma (ཟོར) as a weapon to be used against evil spirits. ཟོར་ལམ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཟོར a large malign torma, magic weapon ལམ the road or way o...
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...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Covered in brown cloth An astrological text. Divination and prophesy through the power of the protector deity Dorje Legpa ( རྡོ་རྗེས་ལེགས་པ). A book with charts, a drawing, lists and tables རྡོ་རྗེས་...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with some "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script No title page. An unidentified astrological text that mentions divination through consulting a rosary (ཕྲེང་མོ་) Some drawings. and charts. Extent: ...
Dorje phurba. A three side iron tantric dagger with attached cloth. Three heads of the protector deity Tamdrin (Hyagrypha) the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara. Extent: One dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 cm long x 3 cm wide. Arrangement: All the material is kept ...
A human thighbone trumpet. A common tantric artefact. Made, according to the owner, from the arm of a 25 year old woman. (it is usually the femur). Unusually this trumpet has a section of animal horn taped to the end. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet. Size and dimensions of original material:...
A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological and other symbols. These figures are pressed into barley dough to create impressions on the surface of ritual dough offerings used in tantric rituals. E...
An astrological thangka / divination chart used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates, depending on a person's day, month and year of birth. Painted on to cloth on a wheat paste gesso ground. Mounted on to black cloth.The thangka is stored in a painted tube. Extent: One astrological than...