A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. An astrological text concerned with spirits / consciousness. གཤིན་ཐེམས་བཅོ་ལྔ་བཞུགས་སོ། གཤིན means a type of spirit or the consciousness of a human who has died but still lingering in the bardo realm prior to reincarnation. Drawings of the eight auspicous Tibetan signs on the final page.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of twenty folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 42.5 cm x 7 cm. 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.
