Drangsong No. 211

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 211
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། དབལ་ཁྱུང་དམར་པོའི་བསྐང་བ་བཞུགས་པ་དགེ་ལེགས་འཕེལ་ལོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration dBal khyung dmar po’i bskang ba bzhugs pa dge legs ’phel lo/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Prayers and offering for dBal khyung dmar po (Red Garuda), who represents the nature of truth.
5. Number of folios 4
6. Scribe’s name lCags phrug
7. Translation of title Fulfilment Offering for the Red Garuda Deity
8. Transcription of colophon ces pa’i tshul ’di ni mdo ’de btsun lcags phrug bdag gis rang shangs phug bas nang du mgyogs par bris pa dge’o/ dge’o/ bkra shis par shog/ zhal dro/
9. Translation of colophon In this case, the text was completed quickly by the sūtra-dhara (mdo sde ’dzin ?) named of lCags phrug (?), in the cave that I alone am occupying. Virtue, auspices, and good fortune!
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs large and small
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7.7 × 27.7 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 1-2 layers, rough
17. Paper thickness 0.13–0.18 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


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