DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 082 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།ནོར་ལྷ་མཆེད་བརྒྱད་གྱིས[ཀྱི]གཡང་ལེན་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | nor lha mched brgyad gyis[kyi] g.yang len bzhugs pa legs so/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | A ritual for the summoning of good fortune and wealth |
5. Number of folios. | 12 |
6. item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs;
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V082_IMG_2709-2720 |
7. Translation of title | The ritual of the eight gods for good fortune |
8. Transcription of colophon | Bhe ro tsa na sba zhabs brag dkar las sbas nas/ bdag khod spungs blo gros thogs med kyis dngos grub du ’bebs lags so// |
9. Translation of colophon | Hidden by Bhe ro tsa na on [the mountain] sBa zhabs brag dkar, and then rediscovered by Khod spung Blo gros thogs med as a spiritual attainment. |
10. Remarks | The mountain named sBa zhabs brag dkar, which is located in rTa’u county in Kham (Shel khog valley, Daofu(rTa’u) County, Ganzi (dkar mdzes) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province China).
According the history of Bon treasure narrative, the master Khod pung blo gros thogs med (1303-1376) revealed a large number of treasure texts from this mountain, mostly related to the good fortune rituals of cows, hours, and sheep. One of the most famous of his treasure texts is a Bon historical work Srid pa rgyud kyi kha byang, the Catalogue of the World, is a detailed geographical source of Kham or mDo stod in rich traditional Tibetan geographical view. And, the Khod spungs, as one of the main famous Bon master lineages in that region, which family still exists today in the Nyag rong (Xinlong in Chinese) county in Kham (Ganzi (dkar mdzes) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture). |
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