DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 210 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། བསང་གི་སྔོན་འགྲོ་ཁ་བསྐང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས་པའི་དབུ་ཕྱོགས་ལེགས་སོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bsang gi sgon ’gro kha bskang bcas pa bzhugs pa’i dbu phyogs legs so/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Preliminary procedures prior to a fumigation ritual and making offerings to the meditational deities, divine protectors and lineage masters. |
5. Number of folios | 7 |
6. Scribe’s name | |
7. Translation of title | Preliminary practice for a fumigation rite and appeasement offerings. |
8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis par shog/ byin che’o/ dge’o/ |
9. Translation of colophon | May all be auspicious. Majesty and virtue. |
10. General remarks | |
11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs; dbu can in a writing exercise at the end |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 7.5 × 25.5 cm |
14. Layout | |
15. Illustrations and decorations | |
16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth |
17. Paper thickness | 0.20–0.27 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, Mn, Si |
22. RTI | |
23. GCMS |