Drangsong No. 260

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 260
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། སྟག་ལ་སྤུ་གྲི་དམར་པོའི་བརྒྱུད་ཕྱག་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration sTag la spu gri dmar po’i brgyud phyag bzhugs so/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Visualization and meditation practices of the meditation deity sTag la me ’bar, as well as the methods for continuous practice, along with the lineage prayers for past generations of spiritual masters.
5. Number of folios 6
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title Homage to the lineage masters in the transmission of the meditational deity sTag la me ’bar the Red Razor.
8. Transcription of colophon
9. Translation of colophon
10. General remarks The text is incomplete, but the transmission lineage is as follows:

Name of master Clan
1 Dran pa nam mkha’ (Author)
2 dPon gsas Khyung rgod rtsal (1175-?) (Revealer)
3 sPa ston don grub sPa
4 sPa nyi dpal bzang po sPa
5 sPa zla rgyal bzang po sPa
6 sPa bstan rgyal bzang po sPa
7 sPa dpal mchog bzang po sPa
8 Rin chen rnam rgyal sPa
9 lHun grub dpal bzang sPa
10 lHun grub dbang ldan sPa
11 Zhu ston rNam rgyal grags pa (16th c.) Zhu
12 bStan pa ’od zer gShen
13 Phun tshogs grags pa (1602-?) Tre
14 Grub thob lha’u dkar po ?
15 lDong sgom bstan pa lhun grub ?
11. Remarks on script  

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs, dbu can

12. Format Deb ther sewn at the top, one gathering
13. Size 7.5 × 25.5 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 1 layer, smooth
17. Paper thickness 0.11–0.13 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 upper margin right
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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