དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on modern paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a ritual ceremony to appease the protector deity Palden Lhamo. Original title of (Tib. མ་མོའི་ཕྲུལ་བསྐོངས་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. ma mo'i phrul bskongs bzhugs so) is perhaps more correctly written as (Tib. ༄༅། །མ་མོ་འཁྲུང་སྐོང་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. ma mo 'khrung skong bzhugs so).

Extent: One unbound book consisting of five folios in a loose paper cover.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 41.5 cm x 8.5 cm.

Condition of original material: Numerous splodges of ink thrugh usage.

Custodial history: All the material was passed to the current owner by his father. Nyima Dorje is not a practising chowa but his father, grandfather and great grandfather were well established and well respected practitioners and would travel widely to undertake tantric rituals.

Arrangement: All the material was kept in the prayer room of Nyima Dorje'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.