A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen ) script. This text is probably a protector puja, a ritual undertaken to protect the person, the chowa, who will undertake rituals to follow. It involves invoking and making offerings to protector deities who will help remove obstacles to progress, and help to fulfill wishes. The title mentions protectors Tamdrin (རྟ་མགྲིན) the main protector deity of the chowa also known as Hyagryph and rnam thos sres (རྣམ་ཐོས་སྲས) also known as Vaisravana, the god of wealth. བརྒྱལ་བ་ཞི་འཁྲོ་ད྄་རྟ་མགྲིན་དྲགས་པ་སྲོག་འཕྲོག་ནག་པོ་དང་རྒྱལ་པོ་རྣམ་ཐོས་སྲེ་བཅས་ཀྱི་མཆོད་གཏོར་སྐངས་སོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།་.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of seventeen folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 48 cm x 8.5 cm.
Condition of original material: The last three folios written on different paper stock.
Custodial history: The older material has been handed down from father to son for at least four generations.
Arrangement: All the material is stored in the prayer room (not seen) and was brought out to be measured and digitised. It is kept in boxes when travelling. 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 has been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
