Drangsong No. 310

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 310
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

སྣང་སྲིད་ཞི་བ་ཆེན་མོས[མོ]ལས་གཞི་བདག་མཆོད་བསྐོར[སྐོང]་བཞུགསྷོ

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration sNang srid zhi ba chen mos [mo] las gzi bdag mchod bskor[bskong] bzhugs+ho/

 

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Offering to and appeasement of all the earthly divinities, such as the gnyan, klu and sa bdag, part of the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World.
5. Number of folios 9
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title Offering and appeasement for local deities according to the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World.
8. Transcription of colophon snang srid zhi ba chen mo’i/ man ngag ti ta gsal bar bstan/ dran pa bdag gi[gis] go bde’i phyir/ skal ldan bu la sa ma ya/ bkra shis/ rdzogs so/ dge’o//
9. Translation of colophon The main points of the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World have been presented here. I, Dran pa nam mkha’, have [composed this] in order that it should be easy to understand; this so this or the fortunate to easy to understand. Blessings. Completed. Virtue.  (0704A)
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, large and small
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.4 × 29 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.25–0.33 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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