DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 170 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།གཟའ་སྐར་ངན་པ་བཟློག་ཐབས་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | gza’ skar ngan pa bzlog thabs bzhugs so/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Ritual for the repulsion of inauspicious planets and stars |
5. Number of folios | 3 |
6. Scribe’s name | None |
7. Translation of title | A method for reversing evil planets and stars.
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8. Transcription of colophon | |
9. Translation of colophon | |
10. General remarks | The text is incomplete.
Although a number of other versions of the same title appear in this collection, and the contents are not identical, especially in terms of the style of the paper and the handwriting, this version is also easily classified as not being the same as those declared to have come from Samling monastery in Dolpo. |
11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 7 × 36.5 cm |
14. Layout | |
15. Illustrations and decorations | |
16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, some areas rougher than others |
17. Paper thickness | 0.1–0.16 mm (f. 1) and 0.17–0.46 mm (f. 3) |
18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
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20. AMS 14C dating | |
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