དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Handwritten in "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A ritual offering from the Pema Lingpa tradition. A single chapter from a larger volume of text བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་གསང་ལས་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་མེ་ལོང་ལས། གདབ་ལས་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་སྲོག་གཅོད་སྤུ་གྲི་ཞེས་པ་པདྨ་གླིང་པའི་གཏོར་མ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of seven folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 32 cm x 7.5 cm.

Condition of original material: Staining and some paper damage.

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.