A wooden dough mould. Known in Spiti by the generic term par shing, which refers to various kinds of carved wooden blocks used to print text and images on to paper or cloth. These specialist dough moulds are exclusively used for making impressions of figures or symbols into ritual offerings, made from barley dough, and known as torma (tib. གཏོར་མ wylie. gtor ma) for used in tantric rituals, especially ransom/exorcism rituals. The dough moulds are also known in other parts of the Tibetan speaking world as zan par / zen par / sam par (tib. ཟན་དཔར wylie. zan dpar).
Extent: One wooden dough mould.
Size and dimensions of original material: 25 x 4 x 3 cm.
Condition of original material: In good condition overall.
Custodial history: Originally from Tibet, given by the Kaley Rinpoché near Mane about 40 years ago.Arrangement: Kept in the prayer room of Chherring Tobgye's house ( not seen). The precise country of origin of the original artefact is unknown. However it was probably created in India, perhaps a copy of an original Tibetan object.
