DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 262

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ཨ་ཁྲིད་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

A khrid gsol ’debs bzhugs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Contemplating the impermanence of the External World and Internal Life, and prayers for the blessings of the meditation deity and lineage masters with a view to attaining enlightenment.

5. Number of folios

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

Prayer for contemplating impermanence according to the A khrid rdzogs chen system

8. Transcription of colophon

smar ro/ u…pod/ bkra shis s+ho/

9. Translation of colophon

Good indeed… blessings.

10. General remarks

The text is incomplete. The prayer text contains details about how the A khrid teaching lineage was transmitted into the Ya ngal family from Central Tibet. This information is complemented by the contents of the text Drangsong 270 in the same collection.

1	sPa ston bstan rgyal bzang po	Gangs ri mtsho gsum gyi sgrub gnas
2	Khro bo rgyal mtshan	La phug dpal monastery
3	mNyam med bKra shis rgyal mtshan (1356-1415)
4	Nyag sgom Tshul khrims rgyal mtshan	Dang ra
5	Slob dpon bsTan pa ’od zer	Bon ri
6	mKhas btsun sMon lam rgyal mtshan	bDe ldan bsam gtan gling
7	rNam mkhyen Nyi ma rgyal mtshan	Shel gyi ri bo