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དུང་།
Two small conches. Extent: Two conches. Size and dimensions of original material: One 15 cm x 8.5 cm, the other 7.5 cm x 5 cm. Arrangement: All the…
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དཔར་ཤིང
A long thin, asymmetrical hexagonal wooden block, carved with dozens of small animal and human figures and symbols, used for making imprints of…
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Two horns
Two animal horns. According to the owner, these are the horns of mythical creatures. Both coming from the realm of the nagas and originally from…
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དཔར་ཤིང
A carved wooden block for printing images into dough made from roast barley flour (tsampa) for use in tantric chowa rituals. Carved with Tibetan…
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དཔར་ཤིང་
A wooden dough mould (Tib. དཔར་ཤིང་ Wylie. dpar shing, sometimes called Zan Par, though this term seems not to be used in Spiti). These moulds are…
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ཐོ་མོ་ཆེ / མཐོ་མོ་ཆེ
A painted wooden staff used by the nyahon, the head of the group of wedding singers. The staff is an important element in the performance of the…
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རྡོ་རྗེ་ and དྲིལ་བུ
A modern vajra / dorje and bell. A ritual object and musical instrument used together in tantric rituals. Extent: One vajra / dorje and bell.Size…
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མེ་བུམ
A copper bowl with brass rim used for cupping. A fire vessel heated to create suction on the skin, a technique of Tibetan medicine. Extent: One…
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རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲི་གུག
A ritual knife with curved blade and with vajra attachments. A tantric ceremonial symbolic weapon, a tool of the gods. Iron, bronze and wood.…
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དཔར་ཤིང་
A wooden dough mould, carved with numerous figures and symbols: human and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and symbols, nagas. The figures…
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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ།
Dorje phurba. A three side iron tantric dagger with attached cloth. Three heads of the protector deity Tamdrin (Hyagrypha) the wrathful…
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རྡོ་རྗེ་དང་དྲིལ་བུ།
A bell and vajra / dorje. Two ritual items stored and used together. Extent: One bell and one vajra.Size and dimensions of original material: Bell…
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Perhaps པི་རུ་
Two animal horn tips. Extent: Two animal horn tips.Size and dimensions of original material: 6.5 cm and 4,3 cm long.Custodial history: All items…
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Large leather bag
A large leather bag brought from Tibet over two generations ago and containing medical ingredients. Extent: One leather bag.Size and dimensions of…
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དཔར་ཤིང
A small wooden birchwood block, carved with figures and symbols, used for making imprints of into tantric ritual offerings made from tsampa (barley…
