Drangsong No. 256

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong  256
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། གར་བདུག་ཡུལ་སའི་བསང་མཆོད་ཕུན་འཚོགས[ཚོགས]བདེ་ལེགས་ཀུན་འབྱུང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་དགེ་ལེགས་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་ཤོགས[ཤོག]།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Gar bdug [’dug] yul sa’i bsang mchod phun ’tshogs[tshogs] bde legs kun ’byung zhes bya ba bzhugs pa dge legs ’phel rgyas shogs[shog]/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Prayers and offerings to various guardian deities, especially the numerous worldly spirits of Tibet, for their protection and blessings.
5. Number of folios 6
6. Scribe’s name None
7. Translation of title Fumigation offering to the all-pervading local deities entitled “Source of excellence and marvelous virtue.”  May virtue increase and flourish!
8. Transcription of colophon bkra shis/ zhal gro[dro]/
9. Translation of colophon Blessings; good fortune.
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, small ’bru tsha, dbu can
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7.5 × 25.8 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 1-2 layers, soft with some creases on the surface
17. Paper thickness 0.11–0.19 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 middle bottom edge
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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