A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is an astrological (tsipa) text འབྲས་རྩིས་ཀུན་བསྡུས་རིན་ཆེན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། The volume contains several inserted pieces of paper which are perhaps unrelated to the Tsipa text. The first three...
Pages from an exercise book, containing Spiti wedding songs including stone songs
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Pages from a modern notebook, containing written transcriptions of Spiti weddings songs, specifically stone songs ( Tib. ཐོ་གླུ་ Wylie tho glu / Tib. མཐོ་གླུ་ Wylie mtho glu) This is primarily the song for mtho mo che, the most important of the stone songs. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu che...
The household collection of Thukten Chhoezang. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Loose texts kept in the prayer room in a cardboard box.
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གཙུག་ཏོར་དཀར་མོའི་ཟློག་སྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། A ritual text for exorcising or averting evil and obstacles. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original ...
A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་བདུད་དཔུང་ཕྱེ་མར་འཐག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Shakyamuni’s praise to Vairocana. Reading this text is an effective way of repelilng demons....
A woodblock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །གནོད་སྦྱིན་ཀྴཧྲ་པཱ་ལ་མཆོད་གཏོར་འབུལ་ཚུལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རེ་སྐོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། A ritual for making offerings to powerful bodyless spirits (which can be benevolent or malevolent) in order to ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. ༄༅། །ལྷ་མོའི་གཏོར་འབུལ་བཞུགསོ། A ritual for offering thorma (sculptural shapes moulded from tsampa dough, sometimes with added butter milk and honey etc) to the protector deity Palden Lhamo,...