དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text of instructions for reciting the mantra of one’s personal deity (yidam) and undertaking the associated meditation practice.The full title is unclear but probably: ཡང་ཟབ་དཀོན་མཆོག་སྤྱི་འདུས་ཀྱི་བསྙེན་་་་་་་་་་ཞལ་ལུང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of thirty four folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 34 cm x 10 cm.

Condition of original material: Slight staining and discolouration through age and usage. Severe paper damage to the last folio though text remains fully 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.