DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 200

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ཡབ་སྲས་བཅུད་དྲིལ་གྱི་་་་་་་ཕྲིན་ལས་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Yab sras bcud dril gyi….phrin las bzhugs pa legs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Prayer to the lineage masters of the past, visualizing the main meditational deity, in the aspiration for enlightenment.

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6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

The essence of the teachings on the gathering of the master and his two disciples

8. Transcription of colophon

ces mchod pa phul ba’i mnyes nas bdag la thim pas/ chu la chu ’dris pa’i/ lan tsha chu la

thims pal tar/ 2 su med par bsam lad sngags kyis ’phreng/ bdag gi spyi bor thims/ khog pa’i nang nas rgyu rdo rje’i rtse la thon/ yum gyi pad ma…….yum gyi zhal nas yang/ rang gis zhal du thims pa la/’khor lo ’khor bal tar dmigs la/ rtsa ba’i sngags sgra che na ’dzab dbyangs/ ’bring shus bu/ tha ma gong ba’i thos tsam du ’bum ’phrag 1 gam. Zhag grangs nyi shu rtsa 1 du bzlas par bya’o/ thugs rje rdzogs pa’i rim pa ni/ de latr lha dang bla ma bsgom pa’i dus na/ me long nang gi gzugs brnyan bzhin/ snang stong dngos bzung med pa’i rig pa spros bral ngang la/ bskyed bzlas byas p yin zhing / rgyas pa ’og nas ’byung ba latr ro/ de latr bsgrub pas/ dbang po ya rabs la zhag bdudn nang du zhal

9. Translation of colophon

In this case, after the offering, a sense of joy arises. The main meditation deity merges into my being, like water merging with water, or like fragrance merging into water. Visualizing myself as indistinguishable from the meditation deity, it merges into the crown of my head, reaching the vajra summit at my heart, entering through the mouth of the dakini… merging into my own mouth. Like a turning wheel, I visualize, loudly recite, or chant the root mantra, reciting it one hundred million times, or continuously for twenty-one nights. In this manner, the steps of perfect visualization, when visualizing the meditation deity and the guru, are like reflections in a mirror, a mind devoid of conceptual thoughts, observing emptiness and non-duality. The specific detailed procedure is as follows. By practising in this way, those with the most exceptional potential may encounter the meditation deity’s presence for seven nights…

10. General remarks

This text contains evidence of the transmission of this teaching from rGyal rong in eastern Tibet to Dolpo in the west. In the process of this transmission, in a similar way to the lineage of the sTag la me ‘bar cycle in this collection, it was primarily passed into Dolpo through individuals like Slob dpon bsTan pa ‘od zer, Bya dur Nyi ma ‘od zer, and others.

1	G.yung durng gling pa (1345-1405)	sPa gro
2	Mtshungs med bsod blo	mKhar sna
3	G.yung drung rgyal ntshan	rGyal rong
4	Rig pa rang shar	gNam mtsho
5	Bla ma gsas chen
6	Bla ma gsas chung
7	sByin pa rgyal mtshan	rGyal rong
8	sNgags chang khro gsas
9	Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan
10	Nam mkha’ dbang ldan
11	Rin chen lhun grub
12	bsTan pa ’od zer (16^th century)	dGe sding, gTsang
13	Nyi ma ’od zer (16th-17th century)	dGe sding, gTsang
14	Tshul khrims ’od zer	bSam gling, Dolpo
15	gYung drung tshul khrims	mTsho gling, Dolpo