དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A cha drol བྱད་གྲོལ ritual. A purification and liberation ritual performed for people who have suffered because of a curse, the harmful influence of sorcery. A problem usually diagnosed by lamas. བྱད་གྲོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་བསུབ་གཏོར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་སྙིང་པོ་གསལ་བྱེད་བཞུགས་སོ། བྱད or བྱད་ཀ། a curse, the harmful influence of curse, the harming power of sorcery གྲོལ release.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of twenty folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 47 cm x 6 cm.

Condition of original material: Stained and darkened through usage and age.

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.