A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The prayer book of King Pekar (རྒྱལ་ཆེན་དཔེ་དཀར) the protector deity for Samye monastery (the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet which was founded by Guru Rinpoche / Padmasambhava), a deity bound und...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Two titles ལྷ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་པའི་བཅའ་ཐབས། དགྲ་ལྷའི་དཔང་བསྟོད། ལྷ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་པའི་བཅའ་ཐབས། means introduction to the gods དགྲ་ལྷའི་དཔང་བསྟོད། means hymns or religious service to the war god. Extent: One unbound...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual to overcome the negative effectsof malicious gossip. This is a ritual conducted inside the house if the afflicted person, with the construction of a dough sculptural ransom effigy (lud) མི་ཁ་...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. ས་བདག་གདོན་གྲོལ་བཞུགས་སོ། A ritual for the Lord of the Earth / Earth god (ས་བདག) Used when building the foundations for houses and disturbing the earth. To ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A fire ceremony text. A ritual fire offering made by burning different types of food and precious things, often undertaken after a period of mantra recitation in a retreat and accompanied by elaborate...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A tantric ritual involving the construction of a large three sided torma (ཟོར) as a weapon to be used against evil spirits. ཟོར་ལམ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཟོར a large malign torma, magic weapon ལམ the road or way o...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text dealing with calculations, readings and predictions following death. ཤིན་རྩི་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། ཤིན་རྩི astrology of death གསལ་བ appearing མེ་ལོང mirror. Extent: O...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Covered in brown cloth An astrological text. Divination and prophesy through the power of the protector deity Dorje Legpa ( རྡོ་རྗེས་ལེགས་པ). A book with charts, a drawing, lists and tables རྡོ་རྗེས་...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with some "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script No title page. An unidentified astrological text that mentions divination through consulting a rosary (ཕྲེང་མོ་) Some drawings. and charts. Extent: ...
A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ritual for the four directions: one hundred offerings each of lamps, food, tsa tsa, or དྲི་གླུད། dri lud (small Lud, sculptural effigy of a man and a woman made from dough pressed into a...