དཔེ་ཆ

A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a detailed commentary on the second medical tantra, the explanatory tradition tantra. (tib. གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་སྨན་བླའི་དགོངས་རྒྱན་རྒྱུད་བཞིའི་གསལ་བྱེད་བཻཌཱུརྱ་སྔོན་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལས་དུམ་བུ་གཉིས་པ་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྣམ་བཤད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. gso ba rig pa'i bstan bcos sman bla'i dgongs rgyan rgyud bzhi'i gsal byed baiDUr+ya sngon po'i phreng ba las dum bu gnyis pa bshad pa'i rgyud kyi rnam bshad ces bya ba bzhugs so).

Extent: One unbound book consisting of 294 folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 58 cm x 9.5 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