A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual to remove parka obstacles. A text for a ritual performed for people with problems related to their parka (སྤར་ཁ), part of their astrological make up. There are eight parka signs, corresponding to the eight elements and the eight cardinal points or directions, signs which are visually represented in the form of trigrams on wooden dough moulds and astrological divination charts. A person's parka can be diminished by obstacles. Two people, for example a married couple, with too similar parkas may have problems which can be addressed through this ritual. This ceremony also includes the construction of a ritual dough effigy / ransom offering (mdos). Title is སྤར་ཁའི་སྐྱེག་བསྒྱུར་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། སྤར་ཁ parka སྐྱེག་ obstacle བསྒྱུར transform or remove མདོ་ or better མདོ་ས་ A ransom offering.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of nine folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 40 cm x 8.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Stained and darkened through age and usage.
Arrangement: All the material is kept within the owner's prayer room (not seen). 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.
