DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 168 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།བདུད་ཀྱི་ཞལ་སྒྱུར་ཁྲམ་ཕྱིས་ཞགས་གཅོད་རྣམས་བཞུགསོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bDud kyis zhal sgyur khram phyis zhags gcod rnams bzhugs so/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Ritual for the repulsion of demons as part of the offering stage in the contemplation of the meditational deity in spiritual practice. |
| 5. Number of folios | 7 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | Wiping tally boards and cutting nooses to reverse demons. |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Blessings. |
| 10. General remarks | The ritual text is the offering part of the sādhana cycle of the Bon meditational deity sTag la me ‘bar. |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 9.2 × 34.5 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.21–0.31 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 7 |
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| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
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