A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. This text is probably a protector puja, a ritual undertaken to protect the person, the chowa, who will undertake rituals to follow. It involves invoking and making offerings to protec...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script with one final folio in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script that may be unconnected. A ceremony to generate an enlightened attitude to all sentient beings. སྤྱི་འདུས་ཀྱི་ལས་བྱང་ཆེན...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script in blue biro. Eight great deities ceremony. A ritual invoking and making offerings to the eight great deities in order to fulfil wishes. བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་སང་ཁྲོས་པའི་ལས་བྱང་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་བཞུག...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. No title. A Tashi Dewa text. A short auspicious ceremony performed at the end of every chowa ritual བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of three folios. Siz...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. No title but this is a red mouth mika text. A ritual to protect against the negative effects of malicious gossip, slander or thoughtless chatter. There are three different kinds o...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. No title page སེར་ར་ཁ་བཅིངས། Ceremony to protect against hailstones and to protect against crops freezing. Extent: One loosely bound book consisting of fourteen folios. Size and dimen...
An undecorated human thighbone trumpet A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet. Size and dimensions of original material: 26 cm long. Custodial history: The older material has been handed down from father to son for at least four generations. Arrang...
A small wooden birchwood block, carved with figures and symbols, used for making imprints of into tantric ritual offerings made from tsampa (barley dough). This particular dough mould is only used for one ceremony, giving alms and offerings to bad spirits, and each symbol and figure is separately...
A long thin, asymmetrical hexagonal wooden block, carved with dozens of small animal and human figures and symbols, used for making imprints of figures or symbols into tantric ritual offerings made from tsampa (barley dough). The figures on this dough mould are used in many different chowa ritual...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in both "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. No title page but this is a text for a Cha drol (tib. བྱད་གྲོལ།) ritual. A ritual performed for people who have been diagnosed (by lamas, or...