DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
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1. Text number
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Drangsong 025 |
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2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། སྟག་ལ་མེ་འབར་གིས[གི]བྱ་དཀར་མཆེ་བཟོགས[བཟོག[བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་ པར་ཤོག་ཤོག་ཤོག
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3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
sTag la me ’bar gyis[gyi] bya dkar mche bzlogs[bzlog] bzhugs pa legs s+ho/ bkra shis par shog shog shog/ |
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
A ritual for repelling all bad omens |
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5. Number of folios |
7 |
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6. Scribe’s name |
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7. Translation of title |
Ritual to repel “white bird fangs” (?) according to the sTag la me ‘bar cycle |
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8. Transcription of colophon |
rdzogs so/ dge’o/ bkra shis/ bkra shis/ |
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9. Translation of colophon |
It is completed. Virtue. Blessings, blessings. |
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10. General remarks |
This text, which belongs to the sTag la me ’bar sādhana cycle, contains a list of inauspicious signs and bad omens. |
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11. Remarks on script |
’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs |
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12. Format |
Loose leaves |
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13. Size |
9.1 × 34.2 cm |
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14. Layout |
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15. Illustrations and decorations |
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16. Paper type |
Woven, 1-2 layers, white paint on the paper surface, polishing traces |
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17. Paper thickness |
0.16 |
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18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 7 |
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19. Fibre analysis |
Stellera sp. |
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20. AMS 14C dating |
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21. XRF analysis |
Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Sr, Si |
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22. RTI |
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