The household collection of Sherab Dorje. A collection of ritual texts and ritual artefacts. Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in the prayer room (not seen).
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book of 108 protective symbols each with minimal textual explanation. These symbols are used in rituals by chowas to protect against different kinds of possession, demons, v...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text with a decorated cover page. This text is for a ritual for the transference of consciousness (pho wa). Used primarily after death. This is a common ritual commissioned after the death...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Folded folios simple stiched together. A prayer for all the root gurus / lineage teachers. ༄༅། །རྩ་རྒྱུད་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་གླུ་ཆར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of six...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A prayer for the three kayas (a sanskrit term for the three forms of embodiment of a Buddha: chos skyu; longs skyu and sprul sku). Folded folios simply stiched and covered in brown cloth. ༄༅...
An untitled woodbock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper, lightly bound into a red cloth cover. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Not a ritual text but a short sutra (religious text). This is Buddha’s (Sakyamnuni) speech to Norbu Sangpo (Norsang) after he prostrated to him. ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An Avalokitesvara / Chenresig prayer on behalf of all sentient beings. Used by chowas and others when going into retreat. ༄༅། །འཕགས་པ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་འི་ཆེན་པོར་འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུགས་ཀྱིས་བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ་ཕ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but the title is the first line of text. A prayer, invitation or invocation for Dorje Chenmo, a powerful local village deity. The text calls for Dorje Chenmo to possess the bod...
A woodbock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A short confessional text recited to forgive intentional and unintentional sins. A Sutra (Tib. མདོ་ Wylie mdo) ༄༅། །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་བཤགས་པའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book co...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An explanatory text detailiing how to position deities, lamas and thorma (ritual dough offerings) during rituals..for example which tiers and what direction they should be facing. ༄༅། །བླ་ཚོགས་པ་བང་...
