A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page, title found within text. An unidentified text. Perhaps a ritual to remove “year obstacles” that affect people when they turn 13, 25 etc. There are different years for males and females. A title found in the text is སློབ་དཔོན་པདྨ་མཛད་པའི་སྐྱེག་བསྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། སློབ་དཔོན་པདྨས་མཛད་པ is a name for Guru Rinpoche སྐྱེག་ means obstacle, misfortune བསྒྱུར turn around, transform.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of eleven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 37.5 cm x 7.7 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.
