DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 178 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། བསྟན་བསྲུངས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དགྲ་འདུལ་གྱི་བཀའ་གཏད་ཐུན་མོང་དུ་བྱེད་ཚུལ་བཀླག་ཆོག ཕྲིན་ལས་མྱུར་འགྲུབ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bsTan bsrungs rdo rje dgra ’dul gyi bka’ gtad thun mong du byed tshul bklag chog ’phrin las myur ’grub zhes[ces] bya ba bzhugs so// |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A Buddhist account of of how the btsan deity, A bse mdung dmar, was subjugated as a protector of the dharma by the Padmasambhava and given the name Vajra Satrujit. |
| 5. Number of folios | 7 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | All wishes come true: the story of how Vajra Satrujit was subdued as the protector of the Dharma |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | |
| 9. Translation of colophon | |
| 10. General remarks | The text is incomplete. A bse mdung dmar is a well-known Bonpo protector divinity and chief of the btsan class of gods, as well as being the lineage protector of the royal family of Mustang. This is the only Buddhist text in this collection to deal with this divinity. |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8 × 38.3 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers, long fibre bundles, rough with a textile print visible on the paper surface, soft, possibly partly recycled |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.12–0.17 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 and f. 7 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
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