A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a mix of modern and handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. This is a ceremony for the eight great deities: a ritual making offerings to the eight great deities (Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱད) in order to fulfil wishes.(Tib ༄༅། །བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་སང་ཁྲོས་པའི་ལེས་བྱང་རྒྱུན་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། or perhaps better as ༄༅། །བཀའ་བརྒྱད་ཡང་གསང་ཁྲོས་པའི་ལས་བྱང་རྒྱུན་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie bka' brgyad yang sang khros pa'i les byang rgyun 'khyer bzhugs so / bka' brgyad yang gsang khros pa'i las byang rgyun 'khyer bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of eleven folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Larger folios are 43 cm x 9 cm, smaller folios are 35 cm x 8 cm.
Condition of original material: The first folios are on a different size and kind of paper and have damaged edges. The later folios have many marks in red pen.
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.
