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གབ་རྩེ
An astrological thangka /divination chart. A beautiful and very detailed scroll painting. Images and charts painted on to unmounted cloth coated in…
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དཔར་ཤིང་
A large wooden printing block. Carved on one side only with three separate carvings. The two carvings at either end of the block are designed to be…
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རི་མོ་
A drawing / painting of a Garuda figure and text. On handmade paper mounted on to cloth and folded into three. Extent: One drawing / painting. Size…
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གབ་རྩེ་
An astrological thangka / divination chart consulted by astrologers in order to work out auspicious dates according to the year, month and date of…
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དཔར་ཤིང
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…
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སྨན་ཁུག
Three leather pouches used to hold medical powders.Extent: Three leather pouches.Size and dimensions of original material: 14 cm x 6 cm; 12 cm x 5…
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དཔར་ཤིང
A long thin rectangular wooden block, carved with dozens of animal and human figures and symbols, used for making imprints of figures or symbols…
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རྐང་གླིང
An undecorated human thighbone trumpet A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Extent: One human thighbone trumpet.Size and dimensions of…
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A collection of ritual objects
A collection of small objects, two conches, a dagger with a broken blade, a vajra, and a tsa tas mould. Extent: A collection of six small objects.…
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རྐང་གླིང
A human thighbone trumpet. A section of the shaft is partially bound in copper wire and leather. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals.…
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དཔར་ཤིང་
A wooden dough mould, carved with figures and symbols. These include human, demonic and humanoid figures, astrological trigrams and astrological…
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perhaps རིན་ཆེན་ཌ་རུ།
The metal artefact contains traces of silver, gold, brass, copper and iron. The file is used to make metal filings from this. Filings which are…
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དཔར་ཤིང་
A carved wooden block, for printing an image consisting of concentric circles of mantra text on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house,…
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ཐོད་པ་ or ཀ་པ་ལི
A human skull cup or ka pa la. An object commonly used in tantric rituals. Extent: One skull cup. Size and dimensions of original material: 15.5 x…
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གབ་རྩེ་་
An astrological thangka/ divination chart, used to calculate auspicious and inauspicious dates for an individual, depending on their day, month and…
