The household collection of Gatuk Chherring. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. བླ་འགུགས་ A ritual to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy) back into the body when illness or other problems have caused it become separated. The rit...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. A very common cleansing and purification ritual, an incense ritual. The ritual is performed within the house if a new baby is born, or someone has died. Juniper, modern incense and ts...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Title text is hard to read but this is a text for a ritual following death. After consultation, the tsipa / chowa gives details for which direction the co...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text dealing with calculations, readings and predictions following death. ཤིན་རྩི་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཤིན་རྩི astrology of death གསལ་བ appearing མེ་ལོང mirror. Extent: O...