1. Text number

Drangsong 026

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བསྟག[སྟག]ལ་མེ་འབར་གྱིས[གྱི]ཡེ་ལོ་བསྒོམ་བཞག་ཤིག[ཅིག]བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

bsTag [sTag] la me ’bar gyis[gyi] ye lo bsgom bzhag shig[cig] bzhugs pa legs s+ho/ bkra shis so//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A visual ritual text of the meditation deity sTag la me ’bar

5. Number of folios

6

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

The visualisation of the deity sTag la me ’bar

8. Transcription of colophon

ces brjod cing rol mo btang ngo/ byad ma sngos su yod na/ khri tshar stong tshar rgya[brgya] tshar brjod na/ ma ha ka la sgral par the tshom med/ gshen gyi bstan pa srung bar shog/ dun tse bstan pa nub par shog/ bkra shis dpal dang ldan ’gyur 1/

9. Translation of colophon

Recite and play ritual instruments. If the hostile power (byad ma) is in front, repeat it a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand times, and there is no doubt that it can destroy the demon. May the teachings of gShen [rab] be carried forward, may the doctrice of demons decline, and may everything be auspicious and wonderful!

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.2 × 34.1 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, white paint on the paper surface, polishing traces

17. Paper thickness

0.16

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1 and f. 4

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp.

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS