དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A book describing all the different kinds of torma (ritual dough offerings) used in chowa ceremonies. གཏོར་མ་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་མཆོག་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བཀོད་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One book consisting of seven folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 25 cm x 18 cm, folding to 25 cm x 9 cm.Condition of original material: Staining and discolouration through age and usage. Some pages damaged but all text legible.Arrangement: All the material was kept in a box in the prayer room (unseen). 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