Old, well used and very fine quailty three headed (wrathful faced) iron dagger, the blade is also engraved with serpent design. 233 mm long. Blue silk cloth attached to the body of the dagger. One dagger The material is owned by Sonam Dawa and was handed down from his father in law Meme Gatuk T...
Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Mid 18th century
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An old clay statue of Tangtong Gyalpo, wrapped in simple cloth that has been stitched around the body of the statue. The cloth is pierced by a simple iron trident headed skewer (katamka). It feels as if the body of the statue may be broken a little inside. We chose not to unwrap it. 210mm high, ...
Prayer wheel: Mane Lhakor (Wylie maNi lag bskor) མ་ཎི་ལག་བསྐོར Early 19th century
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A very fine old prayer wheel, with wooden handle. Total length 265 mm. The handle is 140mm long, the box itself is 55mm long and 85 mm wide. The "hat" is made from engraved silver, the box is copper and brass. The wooden handle is topped with brass and has a brass base. It also has a brass bell ...
The texts (pecha) cloth scroll painting (thangkas) and other performance-related objects belonging to Meme Tsering Tobgye
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The "archive" belonging to an active Buchen household/lineage in the Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh, headed by Sonam Palden. All the materials in the archive are kept within the prayer room of a modern house and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper (pecha); modern ...
༄། །འདས་ལོག་གླིང་ས་ཆོས་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བཞུགས་སོ།། The story of Lingza Choskyit (Wylie ''das log gling sa chos skyid kyi rnam thar bzhugs so) Mid 19th Century
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A traditional handwritten/handcopied, undecorated and unbound Tibetan book (pecha), on handmade paper, telling the story of the Delok Lingsa Choskyit, who entered the netherworld between life and death, witnessed the realms of hell and came back to report on the future that might await. Written ...
Traditional cloth scroll paintings (thangkas). Buchen thangkas are primarily narrative, visually telling / illustrating key scenes from edifying stories of saints and Deloks. One thangka
མཁའ་འགྲོའི་བུ་མོ་འགྲོ་བ་བཟང་མོ༏ The story of Kandroma Drowa Zangmo (Wylie mkha'' ''gro''i bu mo ''gro ba bzang mo) Late 20th century
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A narrative thangka illustrating the story of Drowa Zangmo. Image (Melong) size 825 x 602 mm. About 20 year''s old. One Thangka The material is owned by Meme Sonam Palden and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of head Buchen. All the materials in the archive are...