A Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is...
An astrological thangka. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting on cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Mounted on to brown cloth. Extent: One thangka. Size and dimensions of original material: 81 cm x 49 cm. The image area ( melong) is 63 x 29 cm. Condition of original material: Good ...
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 29 x 18 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mat...
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 32 x 4.5 x 4 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mater...
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 x 11 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer ro...
An untitled text. But this is the stone text, an instructional document explaining the eighty stones, an important ritual performed during large traditinal Spiti weddings. (Tib. ཐོ་རབས་བརྒྱད་བཅུ Wylie tho rabs brgyad bcu) The document illustrates how to set up the Tho, the piles of stones, of whi...
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...
A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made...