A Tibetan text (pecha) written on handmade paper consisting of folded sheets which are held together with thread. Handwritten in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. Title is (Tib སྐྱེམ་གསོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། Wylie skyem gsol bzhugs so) Perhaps written more correctly as སྐྱེམས་གསོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། This is a beer offering song, commonly called Chang Lu. (Tib. ཆང་གླུ Wylie chang glu) Also called by the more honorific name Ser Kyem, literally golden beer. (Tib གསེར་སྐྱེམས་ Wylie gser skyems). Ser Kyem is the name of an auspicious offering song which is sung many times on the way to the brides house.
Extent: One book consisting of thirteen folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 24.5 cm x 16 cm, folding to 24.5 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: Brown cloth cover and many pages stained through usage. Most text perfectly legible.
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.
