A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a text for a mika ritual, a ceremony to counteract the effects of malicious gossip (mi ka). A ceremony conducted inside a house involving the making of a dough effigy, an offering used as a ritual substitute for the afflicted person. (Tib. མི་ཁ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ལྟོ་མཆོག་རྒྱན་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་རིམས་པ་བཞུས་གསོ། Wylie mi kha sgrub pa'i lto mchog rgyan sgrub kyi rims pa bzhus gso).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of eleven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 39 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: Slight discoloration and staining throughout through age and usage. Some repair to pages.
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.
