This is one of six collections of Tibetan manuscripts, which belong to six Bonpo households in Qinghai Province, digitised by the EAP1077 project team.
The manuscript texts in this collection belong to the individual Ngakpa Pema Ridzin household. They are all kept on bookshelves, wrapped in cotton cloth and include traditional unbound and hand written Tibetan texts on paper of different size (pecha). Ngakpa are lay religious practitioners who are experts in meditation practices and esoteric scriptures, active as ritual masters, sorcers and healers, nowadays mainly in rural Tibetan communities. The collection concern rituals, meditation practices, philosophy, astrology and invocation texts that are used for individual and group practice at different times of the year.
Extent: 1 volume containing 838 folios (36 texts). Traditional Tibetan loose folios' pecha format book with top and bottom cover plates made of wood and wrapped in cloth for protection.
Custodial history: The material is owned by Ngakpa Pema Ridzin and has been handed down from father to son through several generations of this Ngakpa family.
