A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text including "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, and drawings (རི་མོ) of thorma (གཏོར་མ།) which are a kind of sculptural dough offering (མཆོད་པ) to the deities, widely used in chowa tantric rituals.Ex...
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...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ritual for the four directions: one hundred offerings each of lamps, food, tsa tsa, or དྲི་གླུད། dri lud (small Lud, sculptural effigy of a man and a woman made from dough pressed into a...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual to overcome the negative effectsof malicious gossip. This is a ritual conducted inside the house if the afflicted person, with the construction of a dough sculptural ransom effigy (lud) མི་ཁ་...
A instructional manuscript with several explanatory line drawings of torma, ritual offerings sculpted from tsampa dough. Torma (Tib. གཏོར་མ Wylie. gtor ma) are common ritual object in tantric cermonies conducted by chowa and also by lamas in monasteries and temples. Each drawing is named. Extent:...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །ལྷ་མོའི་གཏོར་འབུལ་བཞུགསོ། A ritual for offering thorma (sculptural shapes moulded from tsampa dough, sometimes with added butter milk and honey etc) to the protector deity Palden Lhamo,...