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...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. A text for a ritual to remove obstacles for people over 60 years old ལོ་རྒན་གྲུག་བཅུའི་སྐག་གྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། or more correctly as ལོ་རྒན་དྲུག་ཅུའི་སྐག་གྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། ལོ་རྒན old, old pers...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. No title page. A text for a ritual to be performed if nagas are harming people. A ritual for the queen of the nagas that involves a thread cross exorcism / ransom (མདོས) . མཚོ་སྨན་དགུ...
A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. No title page. A prayer to the goddess Kali to remove obstacles. A text for a ritual that includes making a thread cross or a dough sculptural effigy as a ransom. ནག་མོ་སྤྱི་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་...
A human thighbone trumpet. A section of the shaft is partially bound in copper wire and leather. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Attached is cloth of five colours, and a blue-green cloth. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet. Size and dimensions of original material: 28 cm long. ...
A ritual knife with curved blade and with vajra attachments. A tantric ceremonial symbolic weapon, a tool of the gods. Iron, bronze and wood. Extent: One ritual knife. Size and dimensions of original material: 29 cm long 10 cm wide at its maximun. 3 cm deep. Condition of original material: Dark...
A long thin rectangular wooden block, carved with dozens of 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 rituals. A small handle ...
An iron box ladle and iron spoon used in tantric fire ceremonies (exorcisms) to pour butter or hot mustard oil on to a sacrificial fire (as prescribed in the relevant text). Extent: One box ladle and one spoon. Size and dimensions of original material: Ladle is 85 cm long and 12 cm wide at its wi...
A handwritten books of Tibetan texts written on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script with some "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A book containing eight hand copied texts bound together in one volume, texts that were becoming unreadable because of age: མི་ཁ་རྒྱ...