A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ritual performed for people who have suffered because of a curse, the harmful influence of sorcery. The ritual will release them from this. The problem is usually diagnosed by lamas in the monastery who will specify that this ritual is performed by the chowa. The text title is: བྱད་གྲོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྩུག་གཏོར་གྱིས་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་སྙིང་པོས་གསལ་བྱེད་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། བྱད a curse, the harmful influence of curse, the harming power of sorcery གྲོལ release, liberate.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of thirty five folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 42.5 cm x 8 cm.
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.
