An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. No tItle page. A text in several sections, some woodblock printed others handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text primarily describing the reading of pulses, a fundamental Tibetan amchi diagnostic method. Extent: One unboun...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A text in two sections, woodblock printed in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. First title is difficult to read in parts because the inking is heavy but is perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེ...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib. ༄༅། །གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་བཻ་ཌཱུར་སྔོན་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལས་དུམ་བུ་གཉིས་པ་བཤད་པའི་རྒ...
An unbound Tibetan book (pecha) on handmade paper. A woodblock printed text in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Close up details of woodblock illustrations follow the pages of text. Title is difficult to read in parts but perhaps (Tib ༄༅། །མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་...
The household collection of Sonam Dorje. A single Tibetan divination text for use in a medical context. Custodial history: A single amchi (medical) divination text inherited from his great grandfather. Arrangement: An individual text kept in the prayer room of the family home.
An unbound woodblock printed Tibetan medical text (pecha) on handmade paper. in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Entitled: དཔལ་ལྡན་དམག་ཟོར་རྒྱལ་མོའི་སྒོ་ནས་རྣོ་མཐོང་སྒྲུབ་ཚུལ་དེའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་དང་བཅས་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། A divination (རྣོ་མཐོང) text used by a village amchis (Tibetan doctors) but als...
The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).