དཔེ་ཆ

A woodbock printed Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Lightly stitched together. A prophesy from Urgyen Padma here spelled as ཨྱོན་པད་འབྱུང another name for Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) which appeared at Tso Pema (Rewalsar). མཚོ་པདྨ་ Urgyen normally spelled ཨོ་རྒྱན་ ༄༅། །ཨྱོན་པད་འབྱུང་གི་མཚོ་པདྨ་གླིང་ནས་མཐོན་པའི་ལུང་བརྟན་བཞུགས་སོ། The word for prophesy wrongly spelled lung brtan (ལུང་བརྟན) rather than bstan (ལུང་བསྟན).

Extent: One book consisting of six folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 25 cm x 7 cm.

Condition of original material: Paper edges damaged though text is fully legible. Paper edges also coloured orange.

Arrangement: Texts and ritual objects kept in boxes in 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.