1. Text number

Drangsong 020

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། དྲེགས་པ་གསང་བསྐུལ་བཞུགས་པ་ལགས།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Dregs pa gsang bskul bzhugs pa lags/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

The sādhana text system of sTag la me ’bar the Red Razor comprising three cycles: exterior, interior and secret. This is the ritual texts of the secret cycle for exhorting the eighteen Haughty Ones.

5. Number of folios

4

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

Secret exhortation of the eighteen Haughty Ones

8. Transcription of colophon

de ltar re re la sham bu tshig sbyor shes par bya/ stag la me ’bar gyi thugs kyi rnag pa/ phung bon mgo dmar gyi las/ spu gri dmar pa’i ’chong dang/ mde’u kha tsam du bstan pa rdzogs s+ho/ smra ro/ slig tso/ las ’phro can dang ’phrad par shog/ smar ro/ dge’o/ sku’i rgya/ gsung gi rgya/ thugs kyi rgya/ de po [dun tse?] bsregs pas[pa’i] brgya/ ge shan ‘joms pas[pa’i] brgya’o/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

In this way, after each paragraph [the sentence above] must be added and chanted. This teaching—sTag la the Red Razor—is what sTag la me ’bar is concerned with, and also was encountered by Phung bon mgo dmar. A small part of the teaching, such as the “mouth of the arrow”, ends here. May this teaching reach people who have karmic good fortune. This is the seal of the body, the seal of the mouth, the seal of the heart, and the seals of burning vow-breaking monks and destroying demons. Blessings.

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.8 × 33 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, white paint on the paper surface

17. Paper thickness

0.16

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp. and Daphne sp.

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, S

Trace elements: K, Ti, Zn, Sr, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS