Tibet.- Charm scroll with an apocryphal Buddhist text, manuscript in Tibetan, on paper scroll, text in red and black ink, coloured illustrations, some chips and fraying to edges, some scattered small wormholes or traces, a few tape repairs, browned, c.90 x 5660mm., [Tibet], [17th century].*** A remarkable manuscript that claims to be terma, a hidden source of true Buddhist doctrine. The text begins with invocations to the deities of the ten directions and pays them homage. Intriguingly neither the names of the deities nor their sacred realms are familiar from Buddhist or Bonpo sources. The next section claims to be translated from the Sanskrit, containing a long litany of unfavourable circumstances (astrological, demonic, natural &tc) with a prayer that they may be removed. After this come mantra and further spells for warding off evil. The other side of the scroll contains a long chain of talismanic charms, all in roundel form. Most of these consist of some kind of seed syllable encircled with a prayer, each bearing the name of some specific type of demonic injury.