DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 318 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
ཁྲ་སྤྱང་གཏོར་བཟློག་རྒྱས་པར་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Khra spyang gtor bzlog rgyas par bzhugs+ho//
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| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ritual related to various types of bird blood; this text belongs to the Black Kilaya tantra cycle. |
| 5. Number of folios | 27 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | An extensive repulsion ritual according to the khra spyang divinities |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | zhes brgya rtsa brgyd bzlas la bris/ de tsam ma ’grub na yang nyi shu rtsa re re bzlas su la bris/ tha ma yang bdun bdun bzlas pa bris/ de nas mtshon skud gris gtubs la/ sngags bris pa’i shog gu dang bcas pa rnams zor snod du blugs ste/ khrag gis bskog ste/ zor gyis rdzas de rnams pho nya drug cur dmigs la/ phyogs bzhir ’phang zhing bzlogs go/ yang na dgra dang nyams nga ba’i phyogs su ’phang ngo/ zor ’phen pa’i dus/ gzu dpang gzugs pa dang/ bden pa bdar ba dang/ zer lam gsal ba dang/ gser skyems btang pa dang/ kun sngags spyi gzhung dang sbyar ro/ de ltar gzhung ma nor ba byas na/ ’chi bdag bdud kyis zin kyang bzlog par byed do// dus min ’chi ba’i rkyen las thar bar ’gyur ro// dbal phur nag p’i gzhung las/ bzlog pa’i dus su byung pa/ gtor ma’i zor bzlog rdzogs so// bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Recite this a hundred and eight times and write it down; if you can’t, then recite it twenty-four times and write it down, or at least recite it seven times and write it down. Then cut the colored thread with a knife and put the paper with the spell in the container; then cover them with blood; visualise these wrathful torma as the sixty messengers, cast them in the four directions or the direction of the cruel enemy. When you cast the ritual missile, call the gods to witness, invoke the truth, illuminate the path of rays, offer a libation. All these ritual steps are based on root-tantras texts; if you following these faultlessly, you can even repel the clutch of the lord of death, and will be able to avert untimely death. The ritual of the repulsion torms [from the Black Kilaya] is completed. Blessings. |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 6.8 × 34 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.17–0.25 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
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