A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A purification and liberation ritual conducted after a death, perhaps including the ritual use of bones, post-cremation. ༄༅། །བྱང་གྲོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཙུག་གཏོར་གྱི་བགྲུབས་ཐབས་སྙིང་པོ་གསལ་བྱེད་ཞེས་བ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on thick almost leather like, handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A funereal ritual conducted for the deceased when the body is left for sky burial or interred. The title mentions the thread cross (Tib. མདོས Wylie mdos) used as a ritual ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A sorcery text, composed by Padmasambhava. Perhaps a ritual for making malign tsampa dough figures as offerings. ༄༅། །དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་གྱི་མཛད་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཟོར་མདོས་བཞུགསོ།. Exte...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An auspicious prayer text for prosperity, good fortune, happiness, success and good luck for all sentient beings. Performed as the last element of large ritual ceremonies ༄༅། །བཀྲ་ཤིས་བརྗོད་...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An incense ceremony ༄༅། །བསང་གི་ཆོ་ག་དགེ་ལེགས་ཆར་འབེབས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 53 cm x...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No cover or title but the text is a scripture that helps against the influence of nagas. Perhaps a ritual for propitiating nagas (Tib. ཀླུ Wylie klu) and earth lords (Tib ས་བདག Wylie sa bdag). Exten...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An instructional astrological text, a manual for calculation / divination ༄༅། །འབྱུང་རྩི་མན་ངག་ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An instructional text for a ritual to overcome serious infectious disease perhaps through the recitation of the six potent mantras contained within the text. It states that the text is so powerful t...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title. Probably a mika text. a ritual for driving away malicious gossip (Tib. mi kha) commonly thought to be the cause of a variety of problems in Spiti. Mika rituals are not uncommonly performed...
A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra / blessing or perhaps a description but is very faded. Folded rather than rolled up. Used in ceremonies after the death of an individual but also in other cer...