དཔེ་ཆ

A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. A ceremony of 400 offerings, 100 offerings to each of the four direction (Tib. བརྒྱ་བཞི་ཆོ་ག་ཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་མ་ལུས་པའི་ཕྱག་ལེན་བཞུགས་སོ།། Wylie. brgya bzhi cho ga thong ba don ldan ma lus pa'i phyag len bzhugs so) perhaps better as (Tib. བརྒྱ་བཞི་ཆོ་ག་མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་མ་ལུས་པའི་ཕྱག་ལེན་བཞུགས་སོ།། Wylie brgya bzhi cho ga mthong ba don ldan ma lus pa'i phyag len bzhugs so).

Extent: One unbound book consisting of thirteen folios.

Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 39 cm x 8 cm.

Condition of original material: Discoloration and staining throughout through age and usage. Some wear to folio edges resulting in loss of text.

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.