A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. The title text is very hard to read but this is a text for a fire ceremony, a tantric ritual that involves many things being tossed into the fire. Often performed by a chowa after...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A Zhi Tro ritual usually undertaken after a death and during the Bardo period.་བཞིས་ཕྲོས་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། better as: བཞིས་གྲོ་ཡི་དམ་རྟ་གྲིན་ལྷ་ལྔའི་ལས་བྱངས་རྣམས་བཞུགས་སོ། ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unidentified text. རྣལ་འབྱོར་བཞིའི་རིམས་པ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་ཉམ་མྱོང་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཐིགས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One unbound book consisting of twenty three folios. Size and dimensions of original ma...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Cover text is illegible but this is the ceremony of Tho nag (ལྟོ་ནག་) A ritual involving the making of a Lud, a black sacrificial ransom offering in human or animal form, made of barley dough. Extent...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An unrecognised text. Extent: One book consisting of six folios plus one loose folio. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 64 cm x 8.5 cm, folded to 32 cm x 8.5 cm. Condition of o...
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mat...
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Extent: One printing block. Size and dimensions of original material: 32 x 4.5 x 4 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Arrangement: All mater...
A handwritten and hand drawn unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. An untitled text including "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, and drawings (རི་མོ) of thorma (གཏོར་མ།) which are a kind of sculptural dough offering (མཆོད་པ) to the deities, widely used in chowa tantric rituals.Ex...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual for the Lord of the Earth / Earth god (ས་བདག) Used when building the foundations for houses and consequently disturbing the earth. A ritual performed to prevent annoying the Earth...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An untitled text. This seems to be a ritual of invocation used to entreat all the deities, who will be offered food. Extent: One unbound book consisting of eight folios. Size and...