A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single enchained figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with decorative detail and mantra text. Carved on one side only. Extent: One wooden pri...
A carved wooden block, for printing an image consisting of concentric circles of mantra text on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with decorative detail. Carved on one side only. Extent: One wooden ...
A carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single large figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a protection from malicious and evil spirits. The carving is rich with detail: zodiacal year signs, astrological trigrams, animal figures and mantra text. Ca...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual for the Lord of the Earth / Earth god (Tib.ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag) Performed to prevent annoying the Earth Lord, when building the foundations for houses and dis...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual for the Earth god, nagas and other earth dwelling non humans ས་བདག་ཀླུའི་བྱད་གྲོལ་དང་གདོན་གྲོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of six folios. S...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual to remove “year obstacles” that affect people when they turn 13, 25 etc. The title refers to obstacle year ལོ་ཀྱག་ There are different obstacle years for male...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, with additional text writen in blue biro at the end in "headless" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual named after the harmful spirit / consuming demon/ gobbling v...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text concerning correct behaviour before cremation…for example specifying which people (defined by year of birth) should hide when the body is taken to the cremati...
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 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...