Drangsong No. 061

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

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Drangsong 061
Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།སྣམས[གནམ]སྒོ་ས་སྒོ་བཅོས་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསོ།།

Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration  snams[gnam] sgo sa sgo bcos bzhugs pa legs s+ho/
A brief summary of the item’s contents A ritual for “closing the door of heaven and of earth” to prevent natural disasters.
Number of folios 4

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Translation of title  The ritual of “closing the doors of heaven and of earth”.
Transcription of colophon  sa sgo dur sgo bcod[gcod] pa rdzogs/ bkra shis par shog cig/ khon gyis[gyi] phyag rgya yin/ bkra shis/
Translation of colophon  The part of closing the “earth door” is over. May everything be auspicious! This is the symbol of the Khon symbol. Good fortune.
Remarks  Khon is one of the eight trigrams (spar kha brgyad; in Tibetan they are li, khon, dwa, khen, kham, gin, zin, zon).

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XRF Analysis

 Main elements : Ca, Fe, K
Trace elements: S, Si, Cl, Cu, Al, P, Ti, Mn, Zn

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