A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No cover or title but the text is a scripture that helps against the influence of nagas. Perhaps a ritual for propitiating nagas (Tib. ཀླུ Wylie klu) and earth lords (Tib ས་བདག Wylie sa bdag). Exten...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An instructional astrological text, a manual for calculation / divination ༄༅། །འབྱུང་རྩི་མན་ངག་ཟླ་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of sixteen folios. Size and ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An instructional text for a ritual to overcome serious infectious disease perhaps through the recitation of the six potent mantras contained within the text. It states that the text is so powerful t...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title. Probably a mika text. a ritual for driving away malicious gossip (Tib. mi kha) commonly thought to be the cause of a variety of problems in Spiti. Mika rituals are not uncommonly performed...
An unmounted woodblock printed cloth thangka. Central figure of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) also known locally as Urgyen Rinpoche. Eight other gurus surround the central figure, the eight manifestations / emanations of Padmasambhava. གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་གྱི་པར་མ་ཐང་ཀ་ A guru thangka. Locally this d...
A circular printed image containing many mantras. Commonly used as a protective device hung on the door, worn (folded) around the neck or inside a stitched silk square cover. Removed at night. A paper chart printed from a large woodblock. The image displays concentric circles of text, in Tibetan ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An astrological text for calculating details of an individual’s life from their date and time of birth. ༄༅། །རྨེ་བའི་སྐྱེས་རྩི་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།. Extent: One book consisting of seventeen folios. S...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An Earth Lord text. A text for a ritual for propitiating earth lords, for example when building a new house on new land. Earth Lord (Tib. ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag). The text is full of complex tables / ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on thick almost leather like, handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A funereal ritual conducted for the deceased when the body is left for sky burial or interred. The title mentions the thread cross (Tib. མདོས Wylie mdos) used as a ritual ...
A small wooden dough mould carved on one side only with two figures, one a naga like figure, the other a lama like figure. These carvings are "printed" into dough to make figures used in tantric rituals. These dough impressions are probably of Lud (Tib. གླུད Wylie. glud)primarily used in ransom e...