1. Text number

Drangsong 028

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། དབལ་བོན་སྟག་ལྷ་མེ་འབར་གྱི་དགྲ་བྲུབ་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

dBal bon stag lha me ’bar gyi dgra brub bzhugs so//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Visualizing the meditation deity sTag la me ’bar to kill the enemy that is the five negative emotions.

5. Number of folios

9

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Ritual burial of the enemy of according to the Powerful Bon Divinity sTag la me ’bar

8. Transcription of colophon

dge’o/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

Virtue, blessings.

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs; title in ’bru tsha and Zhangzhung smar chung

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9 × 31.7 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, smooth

17. Paper thickness

0.14–0.16 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1 and f. 9

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp. and Stellera sp. fibres

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Mn, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS