A wooden dough mould, carved with numerous figures and symbols: human and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and symbols, nagas. The figures and symbols are pressed into ritual dough offerimgs (torma) during tantric ceremonies. Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size and dimensions of original...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a ritual performance to appease nagas through making a ritual offering of a Lud, a dough ransom effigy figure of a person (Tib.གླུད་ Wylie glud), or a thread cross offe...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Yang gug (Tib. གཡང་འགུགས Wylie. g.yang 'gugs) A ritual for summoning the forces of prosperity གཡང་འགུགས་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios. Si...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A mika ritual. A ritual for turning back the effects malicious gossip, which can have damaging effects. མི་ཁ་དྲག་གྲུབ་བཞུགས་སོ། མི་ཁ་ person mouth = malicious gossip དྲག་ mean wra...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The text for a long life cermony. Performed primarily by full monks in monasteries. ཚེ་སྒྲུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་འཆི་མེད་ཐིག་ལེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound boo...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ceremony to the three jewels, to the deities and to the other realms of existence. མཆོད་སྦྱིན་བསིལ་གཏོར་གངྒའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་གཏོར་མའི་རིམ་པ་བཞུགས་སོ། A section ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The text for a ritual to restore an individual's health. ལུས་བསོ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། (Tib. ལུས་གསོ་བ་ Wylie. lus gso ba) means nourish the body, restore health. Extent: One unbound book c...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological (horary astrological) text, a precious compendium summarising the Tibetan system of horary astrology, (Tib. འབྲས་རྩིས་ Wylie 'bras rtsis ) a system used for progno...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text about the disposal of the body after death. གཤིན་དུར་མཛོད་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཡོད། གཤིན means dead body དུར means grave or graveyard མཛོད means store. Extent: One unbound book consist...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A text for a butter lamp ceremony. སྣང་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མེ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of sixty four folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 3...