A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is the text for a rite to summon the bla (life force/ vital energy/ soul / spirit of a deceased person) back into the body when ill or when some other problem has caused the bla to leave the body. The ritual is performed so that Yama, the Lord of Death, will not harm the patient. The text title refers to cutting the rope that might drag the patient to the netherworld ruled by Yama སློབ་དཔོན་པདྨས་མཛད་པའི་བླ་འགུགས་འཆི་བདག་ཞགས་གཅོད་བཞུགས་སོ། སློབ་དཔོན་པདྨས་མཛད་པའི means composed by Guru Rinpoche /Padmasambhava བླ་འགུགས་means rite to summon the bla འཆི་བདག means Yama. the Lord of Death ཞགས་ lasso or rope གཅོད means cut.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of eight folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 47.5 cm x 7.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Some staining through usage. Some damage to page corners but the text is fully legible throughout.
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.
