A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script and "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. Title text is hard to read but this is a text for a ritual following death. After consultation, the tsipa / chowa gives details for which direction the consciousness of the deceased has gone in. The ritual is performed with dough figures to protect the household from the returning consciousness or negative forces like demons. vampires and hungry ghosts. Drawings of three figures and a face on the final page. ཟ་འདྲེ་ཁའི་བསྒྱུར་བཞུགས་སོ། ཟ་འདྲེ་ gobbling demon, vampire, devouring spirit ཁའི་བསྒྱུར། refers to turning the direction.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of three folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 32 cm x 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.
