Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.

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Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Tibetan fortune telling card, watercolour from a set of twelve. With eyes closed, the person doubtful of the future holds the pack of cards at eye level and pulls one card out by the string attached to a hole in the top of the card. The best of three draws is held to decide the luck of the proposed undertaking, the consequence of sickness etc.

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1 painting : watercolour ; card 14 x 11.5 cm

Lettering

Ink inscription on verso

References note

L.A. Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, p. 465
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, p. 103, no. 49

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Wellcome Collection 581571i

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