དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. The prayer book of King Pekar (རྒྱལ་ཆེན་དཔེ་དཀར) the protector deity for Samye monastery (the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet which was founded by Guru Rinpoche / Padmasambhava), a deity bound under oath to Guru Rinpoche. རྒྱལ་ཆེན་དཔེ་དཀར་ཀྱིས་གསོལ་ཁ་དགོས་འདོད་སྟེར་བའི་བདུད་རྩི་ཞེས་བ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of eight folios and wooden cover.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 46 cm x 9 cm.

Condition of original material: Stained and darkened through usage and age. Red ink smudged on many pages.

Arrangement: All the material is kept within the 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.