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  • Wooden Box: Tengam (Wylie rten sgam) རྟེན་སྒམ Early 20th century

    File Ref: EAP749/8/1/1
    A simple old wooden box. 355 x 270 x 275mm. A door has been replaced. One Wooden Box.The material is owned by Ane Dechen Chodon and has been handed…

  • Kogpo Late 20th century

    File Ref: EAP749/11/1/1
    One Kogpo fully strung and in tune. A very beautiful instrument in excellent condition. Carved from a single piece of wood 860 mm long. Six wooden…

  • A brass pointer [Late 19th century]

    File Ref: EAP1016/3/1/1
    A brass pointer, square in cross section and with a mantra engraved on the shaft. 92 cm long, decorated with attachments including trinkets, small…

  • Statue: Kunda (Wylie sku ’dra) སྐུ་འདྲ Early 20th century

    File Ref: EAP749/8/1/2
    A brass statue of Tangtong Gyalpo, wrapped in a yellow Katak and pierced with a plain iron trident headed skewer (katamka). Approx 100 years old.…

  • རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ

    File Ref: EAP1221/11/2/1
    A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger.Size and dimensions of original material: 26…

  • རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ or རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ

    File Ref: EAP1221/22/2/2
    A ceremonial dagger. A key tantric ritual instrument. Made from iron and brass with brown and yellow cloth attached. Extent: One ritual dagger.Size…

  • Perhaps མེ་ལྕགས།

    File Ref: EAP1221/6/2/1
    Two iron medical objects, with knurled surface on the flat handles. These "fire irons" are heated in the fire then applied to the body.…

  • ཞ་མོ་

    File Ref: EAP1221/13/2/1
    A chowa's hat, made from maroon (red brown) coloured silk and leather. Worn on specific ritual occasions, for example for a fire ceremony, but…

  • རྡེའུ

    File Ref: EAP1221/10/2/10
    A cloth pouch and assorted beans of three colours: black, white and red-brown. The beans are used with the astrological thangka, a counting tool to…

  • གབ་རྩེ / རྩི་གབ་རྩེ་ཐང་ཀ་

    File Ref: EAP1221/18/2/1
    A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra /…

  • མེ་བརྒྱབ་པ་

    File Ref: EAP1221/6/2/8
    A Copper spike with twisted handle used for puncturing skin. Extent: One copper spike.Size and dimensions of original material: 31 cm long.…

  • རྡོ་རྗེ་ and དྲིལ་བུ

    File Ref: EAP1221/21/2/1
    A modern vajra / dorje and bell. A ritual object and musical instrument used together in tantric rituals. Extent: One vajra / dorje and bell.Size…

  • རི་མོ་

    File Ref: EAP1221/10/2/6
    A woodblock print of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava). Extent: One woodblock print. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 29 cm, folding to 9…

  • དེབ་ཆུང

    File Ref: EAP1221/10/2/4
    A short text. A book of drawings and instructions for a fire ceremony. A text related to the Pema Lingpa གུ་རུ་པདྨ་གླིང་ tradition of the Nyingma…

  • Grinding stone

    File Ref: EAP1221/16/2/4
    A large grinding stone for producing powdered ingredients for medicines. It consist of a large flat grinding stone surface with raised lip and a…