Text number
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Drangsong 061 |
Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།སྣམས[གནམ]སྒོ་ས་སྒོ་བཅོས་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསོ།།
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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 |
Item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs
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V061_IMG_2338-2342
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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
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Main elements : Ca, Fe, K
Trace elements: S, Si, Cl, Cu, Al, P, Ti, Mn, Zn
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