A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script in black and red ink A bone ceremony undertaken on behalf of ordinary people by a chowa or lamas. Bones are gathered a few days after death from the cremation site. The ritual is undertaken in the household of the deceased to help facilitate a rebirth into a good realm. (one of the three upper realms of the six realms of Buddhism) ༄༅། །སོ་སྐྱེ་ཐ་མལ་པའི་རུས་ཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་ཆེན་པོས་མཛད་པ་བཞུགས་སྷྱོ།།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of six folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 9.5 cm x 55cm.
Condition of original material: Staining throughout. Some damage to page edges.
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.
