| 1. Text number |
Drangsong 193 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།སློབ་དཔོན་པདྨའི་མཛད་པ་གཤེད་གླུད་དང་གཤེད་ཕྲལ་གྱི་ཆོ་ག་ལག་ལེན་ནག་པོ་འགྲོ་བཤེས་སུ་བསྐོར་པ་དྲེག་པ་ཚར་བཅད་ཀྱི་སྤུ་གྲི་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགསྷོ།།
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| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
Slob dpon pad ma’i mdzad pa gshed glud dang gshed phral gyi cho ga lag len nag po ’gro bshes[shes] su bskor pa[ba] dreg pa tshar bcad kyi spu gri zhes bya ba bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
A ransom ritual to separate the gshed demons that attach themselves to the consciousness of an individual after death. This allows the consciousness (or, in earlier texts, the soul) to attain peace and move towards enlightenment. |
| 5. Number of folios. |
22 |
| 6. Scribe’s name |
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| 7. Translation of title |
The ransom ritual of separating the executioner-fiends (gshed) as performed by the Master Padmasambhava |
| 8. Transcription of colophon |
mang ga lam/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon |
May [all be] auspicious. |
| 10. Remarks |
The gson bdud is a demon that brings calamity to life, and the shi gshed is another class of malefic being that attacks the deceased. |
| 11. Remarks on script |
dpe tshugs, dbu can |
| 12. Format |
Loose leaves |
| 13. Size |
7.1 × 28.3 cm |
| 14. Layout |
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| 15. Illustrations and decorations |
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| 16. Paper type |
Woven?, ply paper, structure hardly visible, 3 or more layers, rough, absorbent with many creases on the surface |
| 17. Paper thickness |
0.19–0.36 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 1 |
| 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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