An unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a mix of papers, some modern and some handmade paper. One woodblock printed folio. Folios of different sizes. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script, with occasional "headless" Tibetan dbu med (Ume) script. A nyingma tradition treasure text or terma (gter ma = treasure) text. The embodiment of the precious ones. The essence of the Supreme Jewels, ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཧཱུཾ་ཿཨུ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་འི་ལས་བྱང་གཏེར་མ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གཅིག་འདུས་བཞུགས་སོ།།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 32 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Varying sizes up to 47.5 cm x 8.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Staining through usage. Repair with tape, edges frayed. Some pages damaged.
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. The precise country of origin is unknown. However it is almost certain that the original text was created in Tibet. Some of the material has been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
