དཔེ་ཆ

A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual to summon wealth through invoking the Tsering Che nga (ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ.), a goddess who is one of five sisters སྨན་བཙུན་ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔའི་གཡང་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ཆོ་གའི་བཅའ་གཤོམས་དང་། གཡང་སྒྲུབ་སྒྲུལ་ཚུལ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of 28 folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 34.5 cm x 7.5 cm.

Condition of original material: Staining and some variation in inking of pages. Last folio badly worn through usage.

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.