A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled text. A ritual to appease the queen of the lake spirits / ocean queen / queen of the nagas. The ritual involves the making of a dough sacrificial offering (མདོས).Title derived from text i...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An untitled text. Title is perhaps དགྲ་ལྷ་དཔང་བསྟོད། Hymns or religious service to the war god. Extent: One unbound book consisting of seven folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each fo...
An astrological thangka. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting on cloth coated in wheat flour gesso (pak). Mounted on to brown cloth. Extent: One thangka. Size and dimensions of original material: 81 cm x 49 cm. The image area ( melong) is 63 x 29 cm. Condition of original material: Good ...
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 29 x 18 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room.
A carved wooden block for printing images on to paper or cloth for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 23.5 x 11 x 2 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer ro...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for an offering ritual for the four directions: one hundred offerings each of lamps, food, tsa tsa, or a small ransom effigy called a lud (Tib. དྲི་གླུད། Wylie.dri lud) (A ...
A Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, covered in dark blue cloth. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The title མོ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། might more correctly be written as : མོལ་ལ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། འཇམ་པའི་དབྱངས་ཀྱི་གསུངས་སོ། This is...