DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 337 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
སྲིད་པ་ཚེ་རིང་གི་གཏོར་སྐུ་བཞུགས་སོ།། སྲིད་པའི་སྤྱི་མདོས་ཡིན། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Srid pa tshe ring gtor sku bzhugs so// srid pa’i spyi mdos yin/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ritual for the gods of five elements: water, earth, fire, wind, and sky, with a request for the blessing of longevity in response for praising their virtues. |
| 5. Number of folios | 26 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | The exhortation (sku = skul) of [the divinities] by means of torma offerings for longevity in the phenomenal world. A general mdos ritual of the phenomenal world. |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | ces lung gsum mdor bor ro// bro bdrung/ phywa tshe gzhung don gyi phywa tshe skyobs/ ston pa thams cad mkhyen pa des/ yum nam mkha’i dbyings rum de[des]/ ’byung ba’i lha bon rnams la gsungs pa’o/ srid pa tshe ring gtor sku zhes bya ba bzhugs so// bkra shis byon/ 1 zhu/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Place the mdos effigy at a three-way intersection; perform the dance, and summon the forces of longevity. The all-knowing teacher taught this from the vault of the primordial dimension to the priests of the gods of the five elements. This is the ritual for longevity in the phenomenal world. Proofread once. (V002-IMG_0782B) |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs,’khyug ma tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7 × 36.3 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Laid, 2 layers |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.24–0.26 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 4 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
