DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 100 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།མ་ཡམས་ནག་མོའི་བཟློག་མདོས་མ་མོའི་ཁྲམ་མདོས་བཅས་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | ma yams nag mo’i bzlog mdos ma mo’i khrm mdos bcas bzhugs s+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Reversing military and viral influences from across the border by praying and practicing the various forms of the female king of the deities in the world. |
| 5. Number of folios. | 9 |
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| 7. Translation of title | Rituals to reverse the virus by the female deity Ma yams nag mo |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | ces bro brdung ngo/ ces pa ’di ni khams steng (ster/gter?) gi ster[gter] ma’o/ sprul sku skyu ri’i bster[gter] ma’o/ ma yams nag mo’i nad bzlog tshar ro/ pho mdos mom dos snyis[gnyis] yin no/ ’di bcas pa’i yon tan gyis/ rgya hor gis dmag sna dag mi mthun pa’i nad yams drag po bzlog nus so// ’di rab tshar nyi shu rtsa cig/ ’bring bcu gsum tha ma yang bsum la/ yi dam dang mthun par bya’o/ dus min gyis nad yams dang/ rimas nad yams nad thams cad bzlog par the ’tshoms med/ bkra shis zhal dro/ sbar mangalȧ/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | In this way, doing the vajra dance. This (ritual text) belongs to the Frontier treasure (khams gter) tradition, which is sPrul sku skyur ra’s treasure revelation also. And the ransom ritual to reverse the virus by the female deity Ma yams nag mo is over, which is composed both of male and female thread-cross ransom rituals. The merit of performing this ritual is to reverse the soldiers from Mongolia and China as well as the vicious virus. In this way, the best is to recite 21 times, secondly 13 times, and at least 3 times, if following the practice guidelines of the meditation deity, then will be able to reverse the untimely virus, infectious disease and epidemic without any doubt. |
| 10. Remarks | According to the narrative of Bon treasure history, Sprul sku skyur ra (12 C), or skyu ra rnal ’byor was one of the main treasure revelators in the Frontier treasure tradition (khams gter), who revelated all his major treasures texts from the sacred mountain rMa chen sbom ra in eastern Tibet, and the works all collected in the Red-razor Cycle of sTag la me ’bar tantra collection. |
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