Drangsong No. 332

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 332
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

མཚོ་སྨན་གུར་མདོས་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration mTsho sman gur mdos bzhugs so//
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents A mdos offering to the female lake deity mtsho sman, a divinity inhabiting mountain lakes, and generally recognised as a female gnyan.
5. Number of folios 8
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title A mdos ritual for the mtsho sman, a female lake deity.

 

8. Transcription of colophon sarba manga laṃ/ bkra shis so// dge’o// ’di bzhengs dge bas sems can gzhan don ’phel bar shog/
9. Translation of colophon Virtue. May the virtue of writing this text be of benefit to other living beings.
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7 × 35.9 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Laid patchy, 1-2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.21–0.24 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 8
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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