A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script, with additional text writen in blue biro at the end in "headless" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual named after the harmful spirit / consuming demon/ gobbling vampire Za dre (Tib. ཟ་འདྲེ་Wylie. za 'dre). The ritual is commonly performed after the death of a villager, as instructed by an astrologer who suggests the direction in which the spirit/consciousness has gone. Other households in the villlage with their main door facing in this direction will also perform the ritual. འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་མཛད་པའི་ཟ་འདྲེའི་ཁ་སྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 54 cm x 7.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Light staining through age and usage. 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.
