A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A text for a ritual invoking a protector deity who who has the power to remove obstacles to progress. A puja for the protector deity Nam res dung mar chen ( རྣམ་སྲས་མདུང་དམར་ཅན), a local village deity in the Key, Gede and Tashigang area. རྣམ་སྲས་མདུང་དམར་ཅན་གྱི་ལས་བྱང་སྐངས་གསོལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།.
Extent: One unbound book consisting of four folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 45 cm x 9 cm.
Condition of original material: Staining through usage. Repair with tape, edges frayed. Additional writing on several pages.
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, though the specific material in question may have been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
