DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
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1. Text number |
Drangsong 030 |
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2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། སྤུ་གྲི་དམར་པོའི་བཟློག་པ་བྱད་ཕུར་སྟོང་བཟློག་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
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3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
sPu gri dmar po’i bzlog pa byad phur stong bzlog bzhugs so// |
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
Repulsion of curses according to the visualization of the meditational deity sTag la me ‘bar |
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5. Number of folios |
7 |
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6. Scribe’s name |
None |
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7. Translation of title |
A thousand methods for repulsing curses according to the cycvle of [sTag la me ’bar] the Red Razor |
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8. Transcription of colophon |
ces phud nam mkha’ la gtor/ gtor ma la dmar sbreng/ zor ’phang ngo/ bzlog mdos dgra phyogs su bskyal lo/ zor ni spu gri dmar nag gi gzhung ltar bya’o/ rjes su gur khang sgom/ spu gri dkar po lta ba’i rdzong bsgyed/ bkra shis/ |
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9. Translation of colophon |
Offer a libation in the air, dye the offering torma red, cast the ritual missile, and send the mdos effigy in the enemy’s direction. The missile rituals should be done according to the main practice texts of the Red and Black Razors; then complete the visualization according the White Razor cycle. Blessings! |
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10. General remarks |
This is a practice text involving the Three Razor (spu gri) system of the main deity sTag la me ’bar, sPu gri nag po, the Black Razor cycle, sPu gri dkar po, the White Razor cycle and sPu gri dmar po, the Red Razor cycle. |
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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 |
8.7 × 27.1 cm |
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16. Paper type |
Woven, 1 layer, smooth, abundant bark particles and fibre bundles |
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17. Paper thickness |
0.14 |
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18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 2 and f. 3 |
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19. Fibre analysis |
Not identified due to high degree of deterioration, short pieces of fibres coloured orange (not possible to observe a whole cell), thin walls may suggest that it is Stellera sp. fibres but too fragmentary to confirm; abundance of parenchyma tissue and crystals (the sample from folio 2) |
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