A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unusual text, with the normal long rectangular shape cut to a point at one end. The pecha consists of five pages with diagrammatic shapes and writing. This text is for use in astr...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled and unidentified astrological text. Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 26.5 cm x 8.3 cm. Condit...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled and unidentified text. Folios bound together with thread and covered with brown cloth. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and dimensions of original material: E...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is a prayer book for daily recitation. Several symbols drawn on the later pages. (Tib. འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱིས་གསུངས་པའི་རྒྱུན་འདོན་བཞུགས་སོ།་ Wylie. 'phags pa 'jam dpal gyis gsu...
A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are used to make impressions of figures and symbols into dough offerings used in tantric rituals. The spectrum of carvings on these dough moulds include h...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An exorcism ritual involving the making of a sculpted dough offering (lud) of a black figure (སྟོ་ནག ) (Tib. སྟོ་ནག་ཚན་མི་འབྲ་ཟོར་མ་ངོས་ཀྱིས་བཟློག་འགྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. sto nag t...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This text is for a rite of ransom, a ceremony in which an effigy of a baby, made from dough is used as an offering, a ritual substitute for a person (Tib. བྱིས་པའི་གླུད་མདོས་བཞུགས...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a text for a mika ritual, a ceremony to counteract the effects of malicious gossip (mi ka). A ceremony conducted inside a house involving the making of a dough effigy, an ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. This is not a chowa tantric ritual text, but a religious text, usually used for reading after someone has died. (Tib. གཟའ་ཡུམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་རྗེ་གནང་བུམ་མཆོག་དང་བཅས་...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Untitled text, but this is the text for a short and common ceremony undertaken by lamas, chowas and lay people. The ritual is an offering, usually of arak (distilled alcohol)barley b...