དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. This text is a protector puja, a ritual undertaken to protect the person who will undertake rituals that will follow. Invoking the protector deity black Tamdrin རྟ་མགྲིན་ནག་པོ (black hyagypha) who will also help remove obstacles to progress. རྟ་མགྲིན་ནག་པོའི་བསྐང་གསོ་བཞུགས་སོ། བསྐང་གསོ་ བསྐང་ means fulfillment of wishes གསོ་ restore.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of ten folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 43 cm x 7 cm.

Condition of original material: Final folio damaged. Some replacement folios of a smaller size.

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.