Drangsong No. 116

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 116

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།སྒྲིབ་སེལ་སྒྲིབ་ཆགས་བཞུགསྷོ།། ཀྱང་བག་ཡང་ཟེར། དར་དཀར་མ་ཡང་ཟེར།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

sGrib sel sgrib chags bzhugs+ho/ kyang bag yang zer/ dar dkar ma yang zer/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A ransom ritual to remove the five great poisons from the self and to perform an exorcism of the demons that symbolize poisons.

5. Number of folios

16

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

A ritual for removing and preventing pollution; it is also called Kyang bag and “White cloth”.

8. Transcription of colophon

ces tshar ro glud phyir kyal lo tshar ro/

9. Translation of colophon

Thus is it completed; the ransom is taken out; it is completed.

10. General remarks

The text belongs to the Du tri su sādhanā collection of Yungdrung Bon.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.7 × 33.7 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven (possibly nylon sieve), 1-2 layers, soft

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.17 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 16

19. Fibre analysis

 

20.  AMS 14C dating

 

21. XRF analysis

 

22. RTI

 

23. GCMS

 

 

Drangsong_055

Digital copy

Drangsong_055

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