Drangsong No. 063 – Mustang Manuscripts

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number	Drangsong 063
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan	༄༅།།དྲེའུ་ནག་མོའི་་་་་གྱི་མངོན་རྟོགས་སྤྱན་འདྲེན་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྭོ།། ༄༅།།སྲིད་རྒྱལ་དྲེའུ་ནག་མོའི་བསྟོད་བསྐང་བཞུགསྷོ།། ༄༅།།གནད་བསྐུལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། ༄༅།།སྲིད་པ་རྒྱལ་མོ་་་་་་བསྒྲུབས་པའི་དྲག་བསྐུལ་དང་གནད་བསྐུལ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།།
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration	dre’u nag mo’i…gyi mngon rtogs spyan ’dren bzhugs pa legs swo/ srid rgyal dre’u nag moa’i bstod bskang bzhungs so+ho// gnad bskul bzhugs+ho/ srid pa rgyal mo……bsgrubs pa’i drag bskul dang gnad bskul bzhugs pa legs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents	Parts of a sādhanā ritual of the main female doctrine protector in the Bon tantric tradition, Srid pa’i rgyal mo, the “Queen of Universe,” such as visualization, invitation, offering, and exhorting.
5. Number of folios.	10
6. item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs;	v063_IMG_2364 – 2374, 2637
7. Translation of title	Visualization and invitation steps in the sādhanā of the dharma protector, Queen of Universe riding a black mule A praise and petition ritual of the dharma protector, Queen of Universe riding a black mule Exhortation of the dharma protector, Queen of the Universe Strive to and focus on encouragement the dharma protector, Queen of the Universe
8. Transcription of colophon	ces g.yu ’brang rag tas sbring ngo/ bkra shis/ dge’o/ ma stas[ltar] zhus dag/ ces tshar grangs mang par byas pas ma mo mnyes shing bsam pa’i don rnams bsgrubs[’grub]/ ma mo srid rgyal bstod skang[bskang] rdzogsw/ dge’o/ mu tsug smar ro/ bkra shis/ ces phud sbrangs zhings [zhing] bskul lo/ sarba manglaṃ/ bkra shis/ ces gstod[gtor] la phud sbrengs zhing bskul lo/ bstan pa’i ska[bka’] bsrung ’di ni phal dang phal gyi thun mongs ma yin/ bsgrub sghen lta sgom ldan pa’i spyod yul yin/ bsten pa gnyen po ’di yi[yis] tshugs/ brtsub pas gal dhod dhod du mi bya’o/ sarba mang lȧ/ bkra shis/ zhus bdag/sarb/
9. Translation of colophon	With these words, sprinkle with beer and liquour; blessings; [this copy] was proofread against the original text. Repeated chanting will please the dharma protector, Queen of the Universe, then fulfill your wish. The praise and petition ritual is finished. Virtue; mu tsug mar ro; blessings. Make offerings of first-beer and perform the incitation. Blessings. Make offerings of first-beer and perform the incitation.This [ritual for the] protector of the doctrine is not for ordinary or common people, but is for the exclusive use of practitioners with experience of visualisation and meditation. This has been initiated by the solemn doctrine (?). This ritual should not be performed in a rough way. Auspices and blessings. The text was checked against the original. May all be auspicious.
10. Remarks	In ritual practice, as a dharma protector, the Queen of the Universe can appear in the cycle of any Bon tantric wrathful deity (whether from Zhangzhung or India), but here she is mainly matched with the cycle of sTag la the Red Razor. Furthermore, in the Bon tantric system, Srid pa’i rgyal mo, Queen of the Universe, is not only a protector but also a meditational deity (yi dam) in her own right.

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