“Thogcha” – Thousand-Year-Old Tibetan Amulets And The Bon Culture

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Enigmatic small amulets known as’ thokchas’ (thogchags) are made of iron, meteoric iron, or, as Tibetans say, “sky metal” or “sky-iron” denote tektites and meteorites, which are often high in iron content.

Tibetan thokcha, showing crouching lion in centre. Credit: Clemensmarabu – CC BY-SA 3.0

“Thogcha,” heavenly iron or sky iron, has been used by Tibetans for thousands of years to create small talismans with a strong connection to the sky. Their tradition is much older than the Buddhistic tradition in Tibet and has its beginning in the pre-Buddhist period of Tibet.

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