A handwritten unbound Tibetan text (pecha) on a handmade paper. Written in "headed" Tibetan dbu chen (Uchen) script. No title page but this is a Naga torma puja (Tib. ཀླུ་གཏོར). A ceremony to protect against nagas, water dwelling gods of the underworld, which involves making a torma, a ritual offering sculpted from tsampa (barley dough) which in this ritual contains medicine. (Tib ཀླུ་གཏོར་ཆོ་ག་སོགས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། Wylie. klu gtor cho ga sogs zhes bya ba bzhugs so).
Extent: One unbound book consisting of 36 folios.
Size and dimensions of original material: Each folio is 40.5 cm x 7.5 cm.
Condition of original material: Discoloration throughout through age and usage. Some text highlighted in yellow.
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.
