DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 248 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། འབྱུང་མཐིམ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དོན་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཞུགསྷོ[བཞུགསྷོ]།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | ’Byung mthim ngo sprod don gsal sgron me zhes bya ba bzhugs+ho |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | An account of the process whereby an individual loses consciousness, body temperature, and the physical elements of the body when nearing death, as well as the subsequent entry into the intermediate state (bardo), and merging with the elements of the material world. |
| 5. Number of folios | 4 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | “The Luminous Lamp”, an explanatory introduction to the merging [of the Consciousness with the] Material Elements |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis/ bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Blessings. Blessings. |
| 10. Remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8.7 × 30.8 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, ply, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.26–0.34 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 left bottom corner |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
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