A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page, but this is a ritual for the deity Mahakala, who appears in many forms. (Tib. ༄༅། །དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མགོན་པོ་མ་ནིང་ནག་པོའི་ལས་བྱང་བསྡུས་པ་རྒྱུན་འཁྱེར་དགྲ་བགེགས་དཔུང་འཛོམས་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie dpal ye shes kyi mgon po ma ning nag po'i las byang bsdus pa rgyun 'khyer dgra bgegs dpung 'dzoms bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of twelve folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 46 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: Heavy discoloration throughout through age and usage. One folio damaged. Some slight repair to pages and blue green pen marks on some 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.
