1. Text number

Drangsong 032

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བསྒྲིབ[སྒྲིབ]གསེལ[སེལ]འདོས[མདོས]ལ་བལྟད[ལྟད]མོ་ལྟ་བ་དུན་ཙེ་བཟོར[ཟོར]དུ་བྱེད་པ་དེ་རྣམས་ཡོད། བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབར་འཛམ་གླིང་བརྒྱན[རྒྱན]དུ་མཛེས།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

bsgrib[sgrib] gsel[sel] ’dos[mdos] la bltad[ltad] mo lta ba dun tse bzor[zor] du byed pa de rnams yod/ bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling brgyan[rgyan] du mdzes/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

This ritual text consists of three parts:  the elimination of all obscurations based on visualization; sending out the mdos effigy; making the demons open the way for the ransom.

5. Number of folios

3

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

The thread-cross ransom ritual and a magical missile (zor) ritual of the “Apostate Monk who is Watching the Spectacle” for the elimination of all obscurations

8. Transcription of colophon

zhes brgya’am [dang?] nyi zhu rtsa 1 brjod la/ brgya lam[ dang?]3’do [brjod ?] lha khang zhig ral ’am[lam]/ mchod rten byin che sar skyal[bskyal]lo/

’di spyi rgyug mdos kys[kyi] bsngo tshul bsang ’dus kyis mdzad pa’o// bkra shis/

ces dkar gtor gser bskems[skyems] rnams ’bul lo/ mdos bzlog zor 3 gyis sna ser tshar ro/ shu shu[shog gu] lag nas yi ge ga[dka’] mo ma byung/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

After chanting 122 or 103 times, take [the thread-cross ransom offering] to the ruins of a dilapidated temple, or to the side of a major stupa.

This is a mainstream mdos ritual dedication method composed by bSang ’dus (i.e., the saint gSang ba ’dus pa); good fortune.

Offer a white torma and a golden libation. The sna ser (?) for the mdos ritual, the repulsion and the magical missile ritual is completed. Good fortune.

10. General remarks

This text belongs to the sādhana cycle of the Bon divinity sTag la.

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9 × 32.3 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

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

17. Paper thickness

0.16–0.18 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp. with singular fibre of cotton

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K

Trace elements: S, Cl, Sr, Si, Al, Mn, Zn

22. RTI

A)    Rendering mode:  Default                B)  Rendering mode: Diffuse Gain

23. GCMS