A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An auspicious prayer text for prosperity, good fortune, happiness, success and good luck for all sentient beings. Performed as the last element of large ritual ceremonies ༄༅། །བཀྲ་ཤིས་བརྗོད་...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An incense ceremony ༄༅། །བསང་གི་ཆོ་ག་དགེ་ལེགས་ཆར་འབེབས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 53 cm x...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No cover or title but the text is a scripture that helps against the influence of nagas. Perhaps a ritual for propitiating nagas (Tib. ཀླུ Wylie klu) and earth lords (Tib ས་བདག Wylie sa bdag). Exten...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An instructional astrological text, a manual for calculation / divination ༄༅། །འབྱུང་རྩི་མན་ངག་ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An instructional text for a ritual to overcome serious infectious disease perhaps through the recitation of the six potent mantras contained within the text. It states that the text is so powerful t...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title. Probably a mika text. a ritual for driving away malicious gossip (Tib. mi kha) commonly thought to be the cause of a variety of problems in Spiti. Mika rituals are not uncommonly performed...
A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra / blessing or perhaps a description but is very faded. Folded rather than rolled up. Used in ceremonies after the death of an individual but also in other cer...
An unmounted woodblock printed cloth thangka. Central figure of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) also known locally as Urgyen Rinpoche. Eight other gurus surround the central figure, the eight manifestations / emanations of Padmasambhava. གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་གྱི་པར་མ་ཐང་ཀ་ A guru thangka. Locally this d...
A large wooden printing block. Carved on one side only with three separate carvings. The two carvings at either end of the block are designed to be printed on to paper or cloth, inked with a soot and water solution. One is a demon figure with feet chained, the other an animal, probably a yak. The...