A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This is perhaps a text read to the dying གཤིན་གྱིས་ཁ་ཆེམས་བཞུགས་སོ། གཤིན་ means a dead person or the consciousness of a deceased human who is still lingering in the bardo state prior to reincaration. ཁ་ཆེམས means an oral will, testament or agreement given at the time of death describing how ones affairs are to be handled.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of nine folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 33.5 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.
