A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is the first of the four medical tantras, the four main texts for Tibetan doctors (amchi). Each tantra is identified by one of four Tibetan letters: ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་ The first part ཀ་ is called the root tantra (Tib. བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་བ་མན་ངག་གི་རྒྱུད་ལས་དུམ་བུ་དང་པོ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. bdud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag gi rgyud las dum bu dang po rtsa ba'i rgyud ces bya ba bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of thirteen folios. Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 55 cm x 9 cm. Condition of original material: Several lines of text underlined in yellow pen. Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father Labu Chherring, who inherited the bulk of the material from his father, Tsering Tashi Labu's grandfather. All three men trained to become amchi, doctors in the Tibetan tradition. Father and grandfather were, in addition, singers (nyahon) and speechmakers (molawa).Arrangement: All the material was kept in the prayer room of Tsering Tashi Labu's house (unseen). 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
