A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ritual for the four directions: one hundred offerings each of lamps, food, tsa tsa, or དྲི་གླུད། dri lud (small Lud, sculptural effigy of a man and a woman made from dough pressed into a wooden parshing dough mould). A ritual for eliminating obstacles. If someone is ill then a larger Lud is made. Male if the patient is male, female if female. The Lud is clothed in the ill persons clothes, fed well given arak and meat and also given to one of the four directions ( most commonly to the East) བརྒྱ་བཞི་བཞུགས་སོ། བརྒྱ་བཞི་ means four hundred.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of ten folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 38 cm x 7 cm.
Condition of original material: Stained and heavily darkened through usage and age. Some page damage, no text loss.
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.
