A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script with some additional text in Ume script. A text for a ritual involving the making of a black dough effigy of a human figure. A ransom ritual ལྟོ་ནག་མཚན་མའི་དགྲ་ཟོར་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbo...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. There is no title page but this is the text for a ritual to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy) back into the body when illness or other problem has caused it to leave. The ritual is p...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. There is no title page but this is the text for a ritual to turn back the harmful effects of gossip / slander / malicious gossip (Tib. མི་ཁ་ Wylie mi kha). Extent: One unbound book consistin...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual performed for people who have suffered because of a curse, the harmful influence of sorcery. The ritual will release them from this. The problem is usually diagnosed by lamas in the...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The text for a wrathful tantric ritual to expel negative forces. Title is གུ་རུ་དྲག་པོ་ཐེམ་མདོ་ལས། སྒྲལ་ལས་བསད་པ་ལས་བཅུ་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། The first section of the title is the overall t...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a text describing how to erect a flagpole for Tibetan prayer flags (lung ta lit. windhorse). Title is perhaps: རླུང་རྟ་སྒྲེང་ཚུལ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of five...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a brown cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is a liberation text. A short ritual saving the life of an animal due to be slaughtered. The animal is beautified, its ears decorated with red col...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Bound into a dark blue cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. An unidentified astrological text. Extent: One book consisting of thirty nine folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 28 cm...
A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 26 cm long. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen).
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough shapes made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Numerous carvings of human and humanoid figures and symbols. Extent: one dough mould. Size and dimensions of original material: 57.5cm x 4 cm x 3 cm. Condition of ...