DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 225

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བསྙན་རྒྱུད་རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་གསལ་གྱི་ཚོགས་བསྐངས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

bsNyan rgyud rin chen sgron gsal gyi tshogs bskangs bzhugs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

An feast offering ritual for the meditational deities and the masters who reveal the treasures, as well as their successors.

5. Number of folios

6. Scribe’s name

dBang ldan

7. Translation of title

The feast offering of the precious clear lamp of the oral transmission

8. Transcription of colophon

bkra shis/ dge’o/ sgo dzo blo gros rgyal mtshan gyis yang dbyen[dben] thang lha’i gnas su bsbyar ba dge legs sbyor/ bkra shis/ ’gug skyabs zhal dro/ dbang ldan bdag gis yi ge ’di bris pa lags/

9. Translation of colophon

Blessings. Virtue. Completed by sGo dzo Blo gros rgal mtshan (?) in the retreat of the Thang la mountain. Virtue, Good luck! Copied by me, the name of dBang ldan.

10. General remarks

The relevant texts in this Drangsong collection show us that Yung drung gling pa (1346-1405), one of the pioneering figures of the new Bon tradition, revealed the treasure text of “the Triad of the Father and his [Two] Sons, the Three” (Yab sras gsum) and that it was subsequently transmitted to the Bru and gShen families in Central Tibet, where it was passed on and developed.

1	gYung drung gling pa (1346-1405)
2	Legs pa rgyal mtshan ( ? )
3	Grags pa rgyal mtshan (?)
4	Ye shes tshul khrims ( ? )
5	Kun dga’ dbang ldan ( ? )
6	Nyi ma rgyal mtshan ( 14th cetury )	gShen family
7	Blo gros rgyal mtshan ( ? )
8	Bstan pa ’od zer ( ? )	gShen family
9	Nyi ma ’od zer ( ? )