A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink. ༄༅། །ཀོང་རྩེའི་ལྟོས་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་བུམ་གཏེར་སྦད་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགས་སོ།། A treasure vase text. A ritual concerned with hiding a gold, silver or clay treasure vase (bum pa) sometimes containing precious items (rin po che) , gold, silk, auspicious objects, grains, peas, etc, within a house to protect against disease, repeating misfortune and negative forces and help to guarantee health and wealth for the inhabitants or more generally for the beneficial effects for the whole valley.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of seven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 10 cm x 57cm.
Condition of original material: Staining throughout.
Arrangement: Loose texts kept in the prayer room in a cardboard box. 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.
