DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 103 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། སྲིད་རྒྱལ་དྲེའུ་དམར་མོའི་འགུགས་ལས་བཞུགསྷོ།།༄༅།། སྲིད་རྒྱལ་དྲེའུ་ནག་མོའི་འགུགས་ལས་ཤུགས་སྒྲོལ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | srid rgyal dre’u dmar mo’i ’gugs las bzhugs+ho/
srid rgyal dre’u nag mo’i ’gugs las shugs sgrol bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | It is a ritual for summoning the souls of enemies and destroying them by invoking two forms of Srid pa’i rgyal mo, the Queen of the Universe. |
| 5. Number of folios. | 3+4 |
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| 7. Translation of title | A ritual of summoning [the souls of enemies] by the Queen of the Universe who Rides the Red Mule
A ritual of summoning [the souls of enemies] and forcibly liberating them by the Queen of the Universe who Rides the Black Mule
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| 8. Transcription of colophon | zhang zhung sgo du[ru] srang[drangs]pas/ ’phrin las drag tu bskul par[bar] bya’o/ bkra shis/
ces skul lo/ srid rgyal dre’u nag mo’i ’gugs las dgra’o srog gi shed[gshed] ma rdzogs+ho/ bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | The text was revealed in the Portal of Zhang zhung, and an insistent exhortation to action is performed. Blessings.
With this exhortation, the text for summoning by the Queen of the Universe who rides a Black Mule, entitled “the Executioner of the Life-force of Enemies,” is completed. Blessings. |
| 10. Remarks | The Red Mule form of the Queen of the Universe is particularly worshiped by the Bru family and their followers, and the Black Mule form by the gShen family and their followers.
In the main Yung drung Bon tantric cycles, Srid pa’i rgyal mo, the Queen of the Universe, appears as the consort of the main deities. However, when she features as a meditational divinity in her own right, she generally has six different faces depending on the six different time periods, and is known as Srid rgyal dus drug.
The summoning action (’gugs/dgug las) is one of the ten kinds of action in tantric ritual. These are: (1) zhi, pacifying; (2) rgyas, nurturing; (3) dbang, conquering; (4) bsad, killing; (5) dgug, summoning; (6) bskrad, dismissing; (7) dbye, separating; (8) lkugs, causing muteness; (9) smyo ’bog, causing insanity; (10) mnan pa, suppressing. |
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