A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a Zhi Tro (ཞི་ཁྲོ་) ritual text. A ceremony commonly performed after the death of an individual and during the 49 days of the Bardo period prior to reincarnation. The Dangkhar chowa also performs this ritual once a year for the benefit of all sentient beings.The Zhi Tro ceremony text details the 100 peaceful and wrathful deities. Zhi means peaceful and Tro wrathful. ཟབ་ཆོས་ཞི་ཁྲོ་དང་དོན་སྙིང་པོ་སྒོ་ནས་རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དོན་མཆོག་ཏུ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས་རིམ་འཁོར་བའི་མུན་གཞོམ་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་སྣང་མཛོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 119 folios.Size and dimensions of original material: The wooden cover is 51.5 x 9 cm. Each folio is 48.5 cm x 9 cm.
Condition of original material: Very good condition for its age. Some discolouration through usage, some inking rather light.
Arrangement: All material is kept in the prayer room. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
