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.
An unidentified offering deity drawing on hand made paper, folded into three sections. Images of unidentified goddesses. Extent: One drawing. Size and dimensions of original material: 10 x 16 cm folding to 20 x 5.5 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. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual to remove parka obstacles. A text for a ritual performed for people with problems related to their parka (སྤར་ཁ), part of their astrological make up. There are eight parka signs, co...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title page is missing. This is a text for a ritual performed at the age of 9, and then every nine years to follow, a ritual to remove obstacles that are commonly thought to occur at these ag...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A beer (chang) offering ritual for the gods of the eight planets. No title page.Title suggested by Chowa གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གསེར་སྐྱེམས་བཞུགས་སོ། གཟའ་བརྒྱད་ eight planets གསེར་སྐྱེམས A very honor...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, i black and red ink. This appears to be the text for an offering ritual performed for the nine headed naga. The “title page” is apparently not the name of the text but a descripti...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title is very unclear but the text was identified by the owner as a mika text. A text for a ritual to turn back the harmful effects of gossip / slander / malicious gossip (Tib. མི་ཁ Wyli...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A ritual invoking wealth deities such as Vaisravana or Zambala. the title is very hard to read but includes: གཡང་སྒྲུབ་ནོར་བུའི་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ. Extent: One unbound bo...