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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
A ritual dagger and holder, a common tantric artefact used in many chowa rituals. Extent: one dagger.Size and dimensions of original material: 26…
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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ or རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
A ceremonial dagger. A key tantric ritual instrument. Made from iron and brass with brown and yellow cloth attached. Extent: One ritual dagger.Size…
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Perhaps མེ་ལྕགས།
Two iron medical objects, with knurled surface on the flat handles. These "fire irons" are heated in the fire then applied to the body.…
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ཞ་མོ་
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…
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རྡེའུ
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…
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གབ་རྩེ / རྩི་གབ་རྩེ་ཐང་ཀ་
A very worn, small and simple astrological thangka / divination chart. Written text on the reverse in Tibetan Uchen script may be a mantra /…
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མེ་བརྒྱབ་པ་
A Copper spike with twisted handle used for puncturing skin. Extent: One copper spike.Size and dimensions of original material: 31 cm long.…
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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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རི་མོ་
A woodblock print of Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava). Extent: One woodblock print. Size and dimensions of original material: 39 x 29 cm, folding to 9…
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དེབ་ཆུང
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…
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Grinding stone
A large grinding stone for producing powdered ingredients for medicines. It consist of a large flat grinding stone surface with raised lip and a…
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ཌ་མ་རུ
A damaru / swivel drum. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Extent: One swivel drum.Size and dimensions of original material: 10 x 10…
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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. Extent: One printing…
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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 carved wooden block, for printing an image of a single large figure on to cloth or paper, for hanging outside a house, above the door, as a…
