A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. No title page. This is an instruction manual for recitation, used for example when going into retreat. བསྙེན་ཡིག་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of ten folios. Size and dimensions of ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A meditation manual. Preparation for study of and becoming one with one’s guru, yidam and dakini. བླ་མ་དང་ཡི་དམ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་གསུམ་གྱི་སློབ་སྡོག་བཞུགས་སྷོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of five fol...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for erecting flagpoles for tibetan flags. དར་འཛུགས་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of nine folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 25 cm x 9 cm. Arrange...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This seems to be continutaion of EAP1221_LNGC_GC_TXT-22. Also a mika text: advice and instructions on dealing with malicious gossip. མི་ཁའི་བསླབ་བྱ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book section consisting of si...
Tingshag. A pair of small hand cymbals joined together with a leather thong. Extent: One pair of small cymbals. Size and dimensions of original material: Each 7.2 cm in diameter 2 cm high. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
Two small conches. Extent: Two conches. Size and dimensions of original material: One 15 cm x 8.5 cm, the other 7.5 cm x 5 cm. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
A brass mirror and attached modern katak. Extent: One mirror and cloth. Size and dimensions of original material: 11.6 cm diameter and 0.5 cm deep. Arrangement: All the material is kept within the prayer room (not seen).
An animal bone "piping syringe", probably made from the lower leg bone of a sheep. The bone has a hole drilled in its end, and is filled with butter which is extruded with a stick "plunger", to create butter piping to decorate ritual dough offerings (torma). Extent: One animal bone piping syringe...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. A very common cleansing and purification ritual, an incense ritual. The ritual is performed within the house if a new baby is born, or someone has died. Juniper, modern incense and ts...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with additional "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This text is for an unidentified ritual, but clearly a wrathful tantric ritual involving the making and throwing of a torma at evil spirits t...