A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink. ༄༅། །ཀོང་རྩེའི་ལྟོས་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་བུམ་གཏེར་སྦད་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།། A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase (bum pa)...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink A bone ceremony undertaken on behalf of ordinary people by a chowa or lamas. Bones are gathered a few days after death from the cremation site. The ritual is undertaken i...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase ( bum pa ) sometimes containing precious items (rin po che) , gold, silk, auspicious objects, grains...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The cover is very dark cover so the title text is hard to read. This is an offering to the 100 deities who reside in Ganden, a Buddhist heaven, a pure joyous land occupied by Buddhas and Boddhisatva...
Two brass stands for the human skull cup. Extent: Brass stands. Size and dimensions of original material: 13 x 8 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
A human skull cup or ka pa la. An object commonly used in tantric rituals. Extent: One skull cup. Size and dimensions of original material: 15.5 x 13 x 6 cm. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
A collection of small objects, two conches, a dagger with a broken blade, a vajra, and a tsa tas mould. Extent: A collection of six small objects. Size and dimensions of original material: various. Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room.
A text in the form of a long paper scroll with images and text
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An untitled text. A long woodblock printed roll containing numerous signs and symbols, The eight auspicious Tibetansymbols; images of Boddhisatvas, daggers, animals like snakes, birds rabbits dogs and horse; the sun and moon. Extent: One text in the form of a long thin paper scroll. Size and dim...