DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number |
Drangsong 116 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།སྒྲིབ་སེལ་སྒྲིབ་ཆགས་བཞུགསྷོ།། ཀྱང་བག་ཡང་ཟེར། དར་དཀར་མ་ཡང་ཟེར། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
sGrib sel sgrib chags bzhugs+ho/ kyang bag yang zer/ dar dkar ma yang zer/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
A ransom ritual to remove the five great poisons from the self and to perform an exorcism of the demons that symbolize poisons. |
5. Number of folios |
16 |
6. Scribe’s name |
None |
7. Translation of title |
A ritual for removing and preventing pollution; it is also called Kyang bag and “White cloth”. |
8. Transcription of colophon |
ces tshar ro glud phyir kyal lo tshar ro/ |
9. Translation of colophon |
Thus is it completed; the ransom is taken out; it is completed. |
10. General remarks |
The text belongs to the Du tri su sādhanā collection of Yungdrung Bon. |
11. Remarks on script |
dpe tshugs, ’khyug |
12. Format |
Loose leaves |
13. Size |
9.7 × 33.7 cm |
14. Layout |
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15. Illustrations and decorations |
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16. Paper type |
Woven (possibly nylon sieve), 1-2 layers, soft |
17. Paper thickness |
0.15–0.17 mm |
18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 16 |
19. Fibre analysis |
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20. AMS 14C dating |
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21. XRF analysis |
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22. RTI |
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23. GCMS |
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