དཔེ་ཆ

A woodblock printed unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. In "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. An additional commentary on the illuminated text from the same household collection (EAP1221_HNS_TTL_TXT-2),which itself is a commentary on the third medical tantra, the oral tradition tantra. Author’s name is Nawang Sangye Palzang ༼ ངག་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས་དཔལ་བཟང་། ༽ Full title is: (Tib. བདུད་རྩི་སྙིང་པོ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་པ་གསང་བ་མན་ངག་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ལྷན་ཐབས་ཟུག་རྔུའི་ཚ་གདུང་སེལ་བའི་ཀཏྤཱུར་དུས་མིན་འཆི་ཞགས་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་གསང་སྨན་ཕབ་ཚིག་ཞལ་ཤེས་སྦྱོར་ཚད་སོགས་མ་སྦས་ལྷུག་པར་བཤད་པ་བདུད་རྩིའི་གཏེར་བུམ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གཏད་རྒྱའི་རྒྱ་མདུད་བཀྲོལ་བའི་རིན་ཆེན་གསེར་གྱི་ལྡེ་མིག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. bdud rtsi snying po yan lag brgyad pa gsang ba man ngag yon tan rgyud kyi lhan thabs zug rngu'i tsha gdung sel ba'i kat+pUr dus min 'chi zhags gcod pa'i ral gri zhes bya ba'i gsang sman phab tshig zhal shes sbyor tshad sogs ma sbas lhug par bshad pa bdud rtsi'i gter bum mkha' 'gro'i gtad rgya'i rgya mdud bkrol ba'i rin chen gser gyi lde mig ces bya ba bzhugs so).

Extent: One unbound book consisting of 56 folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 45 cm x 8.5cm.

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.