དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An offering ritual to the three (groups) the worldly gods, mountain spirits and nagas. ཨུ་རྒྱན་པདྨ་མཛད་པའི་དཔེ་དཀར་བརྩན་ཀླུ་གསུམ་གྱི་གསོལ་འཁའ་བཞུགས་སོ།།.

Extent: One unbound book consisting of 12 folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 42 cm x 9 cm.

Condition of original material: Scissor cut modern paper. Text fully legible.

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.