A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An Earth Lord text. A text for a ritual for propitiating earth lords, for example when building a new house on new land. Earth Lord (Tib. ས་བདག Wylie. sa bdag). The text is full of complex tables / diagrammatic figures, which detail the twelve year Tibetan zodiacal signs and divide each year up into complex sections. ༄༅། །ས་བདག་ཁང་བུ་བཞུགས་སོ། (so actually spelled an archaic form of shyo).
Extent: One book consisting of eight folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 58 cm x 10 cm, folding to 29 cm x 10 cm.
Condition of original material: Cover discoloured through age and usage. Pages also stained throughout. Text fully legible.
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.
