1. Text number 

Drangsong 151

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།གསེར་སྐྱེམས་དང་གཞི་བཏིང་དང་བཅས་པའི་དབུ་ཡི་ས་ཕྱོགས་ལ་གཟིགས། བཀྲ་ཤིས།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

gSer skyems dang gzhi bting dang bcas pa’i dbu yi sa phyogs la gzigs/ bkra shis/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

“Golden libation” offering to invoke the divinities prior to a ritual, on a black and white platform with an upright arrow along which they should descend.

5. Number of folios

3

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Golden libation and the laying of a basic platform [for the descent of the divinities]

8. Transcription of colophon

ces mdos kyis[kyi] gzhi gding ngo/ bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling brgyan[rgyan] du byon[shog]

9. Translation of colophon

The base of the mdos ritual is thus laid. May glorious auspices come as the ornament of the world

10. General remarks

This text belongs to a mdos ritual from the cycle of of sTag la me ’bar, one of the main meditation deities of Yungdrung Bon. 

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, large and small

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.6 × 32.8 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, polishing traces, the remains of white paint in a few places

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.17 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, K

Trace elements: Fe, Sr, S

22. RTI

23. GCMS