DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 199 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།སྔོགས་དསྔོགས་ཡོངས་བསང་བཞུགསྷོ། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | sNgogs dsngogs yongs bsang bzhugs+ho/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayers and praise for all the virtues of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; an aspiration for the flourishing of the doctrine, the diligent practice of individuals, for awakening, for the absence of disasters, diseases, and wars in the mundane world, and for bountiful harvests. |
5. Number of folios | 6 |
6. Scribe’s name | |
7. Translation of title | Dedication prayer |
8. Transcription of colophon | ’grub[sgrub] gnas bshug ri nyi shar du bris so/ a bzo bsam stan[gtan]… |
9. Translation of colophon | Written by A dzom bsam gtan (?) at the meditation site Bshug ri nyi shar (unidentified). |
10. General remarks | |
11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha/ dpe tshugs hybrid? |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 8.1 × 29.5 cm |
14. Layout | |
15. Illustrations and decorations | |
16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers |
17. Paper thickness | 0.19–0.27 mm |
18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
19. Fibre analysis | |
20. AMS 14C dating | |
21. XRF analysis | Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S
Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Sr, Si |
22. RTI | |
23. GCMS |