DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 001 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
འཕུང་འདྲེ་འགོང་པོ་ཨ་ལྟར་བསྟད[གཏད]་བྱེད་པ་བཞུགས་བསྷོ[སོ]།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | ’Phung ’dre ’gong po a ltar bstad [gtad] byed pa bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A tantric text for the destruction of demons by visualisation, belonging to the sTag la cycle |
| 5. Number of folios | 17 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | Destruction of ’phung dre and ’gong po demons through the visualisation of the letter ‘A’ |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | None |
| 9. Translation of colophon | None |
| 10. General remarks | After fol. 15 (0478A-0479B), apart from fols 18 (0482A-0483B) and 21 (0484A-0485B), fols 16, 17, 19, 20 and everything after fol. 21 is missing. There is therefore no colophon. |
| 11. Remarks on script | ’khyug ma tshugs and some ’khyug for instructions; dpe tshugs for sections to be read, dbu can for mantras; various handwritings (more than 3). |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 6.7 × 28 |
| 14. Layout | Title (one line) centrally composed in the frame sketched with red ink; five text lines on the following pages with one exception when there is six lines of text; both full frames and side margins sketched with red ink. |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | None |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 3–4 layers |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.13–0.39 |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 2 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | Daphne sp. mixed with Stellera sp. fibres |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis |
Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S Trace elements: Ti, Zn |
| 22. RTI | |
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