དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page. One page written in Umed script with small hand drawings. one page has four black thumbprints on its edge An amchi (Tibetan medical) text. A response ffrom the medicine Buddha to the questions of two sages. Title on the last page is བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་བ་མན་ངག་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླ་བེེཌཱུརྱ་འོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་བྱིན་རླབས་ལས་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྟོན་པ་དྲང་སྲོང་རིག་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་དང་དྲང་སྲོང་ཡིད་ལས་སྐྱེས་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་ལན་དུ་མཛད་པ་གསོ་དཔྱད་ཀུན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་བཞུགས་སོ།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of forty four folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 49 cm x 8.5 cm.

Condition of original material: Generally good condition for its age. Some discolouration and staining throughout. First folio is badly worn with page edges and some text missing. Likewise the last folio. Some repair with tape. Text is legible throughout.

Custodial history: Material handed down from the current owner's father.

Arrangement: A series of amchi (Tibetan medical) texts, kept in the owner's prayer room. 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.