A handwritten Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is an incense ritual, a treasure text (terma) composed by Guru Rinpoche (In the nyingma tradition, such treasure texts are assumed to have been found in the earth) སློབ་པོན་པདྨའི་གསུངས་པའི་གཏེར་བསངས་བཞུགས་སོ། སློབ་པོན་པདྨ means Guru Rinpoche གསུངས་པ means composed or spoken by གཏེར means treasure (from the earth) བསངས means smoke.
Extent: One book consisting of 22 folded folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: The book is 28 x 12cm. Each folio is 53 cm x 9 cm.
Condition of original material: Card and cloth cover stained and torn. Text inside is written in black ink with additional red ink. Staining throughout from usage but the text is perfectly legible throughout.
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 has been copied locally in Spiti (India) at a later date.
