DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 087 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།དཾ་གནད་ཀྱི་བསྐུལ་བ། དགྲ་སྲོག་གཅོད་པའི་སྤུ་གྲི་བཞུགསོ།།༄༅།།བསྒྲལ་པ[བ]ཚོགས་སྐངས[བསྐང]དངོས་གྲུབ་སྨོན་ལམ་ལྷག་མ་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | dȧ gnad kyi bskul ba/ dgra srog gcod pa’i spru gri bzhugs so//
bsgral pa[ba] tshogs skangs[bskang] dngos grub smon lam lhag ma dang bcas pa bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | The previous is an invocation prayer to summon and encourage all the protectors to destroy all enemies who damage the teachings of Yungdrung Bon tradition. And, the later one includes the mainly sections of the festive ritual of meditation deity sTag la me ’bar—the main part of meditation practice when it is performed. |
| 5. Number of folios. | 4 |
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| 7. Translation of title | Encouragement of the protectors summons as a sharp sword that takes the life of the enemies.
The liberation, fulfilling offering, achievements, aspiration, and later action parts of the festive ritual of the meditation deity sTag la me ’bar |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | ces pa ’di ni gshen gyi drang srong she[shes] rab rgyal mtshan gyis sbyar ba ’di kyang bstan dgra dam nyams ma lus par/ brtsa[rtsa] nas gcod pa’i smon lam brgya/ deg[dge] legs ’phel lo/ yi ge pa ni ra nag bso[bsod] brnams[nmas] gtsug phud gyis[kyis]/ sor mo yis rtse la[las] skrun/ bkra shis par shog/
stag la’i rgyun skangs ’di sngags ’chang rin chen blo gros kyi[kyis] mdzad pa’o/ bkra shis/ smon lam rdzogs+ho/ tshogs kyis yin/ dge’o/ dag go/ bkra shis s+ho/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | In the case, the text made by Shes rab rgyal mtshan, the bhikkhu of the doctrine of gShen tradition, may this merit be benefit fundamentally destroy all enemies of the doctrine, may it be auspicious! The copyist, which is from in Ra nag bsod nsam gtsug phud’s hand.
This daily fulfilling offering text is composed by mantrika Rin chen blo gros, may it be auspicious! The aspiration part (of the festive ritual) is over, may it be virtue, may it be auspicious! |
| 10. Remarks | Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1356-1415), founder of the sMan ri monastery in 1405 in central Tibet, and famous as the second Buddha of Bon for his contributions to scholarship, as well as the building of sMan ri monastery, which was in line with the monasteries in the mainstream Tibetan Buddhism tradition at the time.
Ra nag bsod nsam gtsug phud (?) mantrika Rin chen blo gros (18C) or known as Bon nag rin chen blo gros, is a heritor of master in the linage of Red-razor Tantra Cycle of sTga la me ’bar deity. |
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