Drangsong No. 120

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 120

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།སྤྱན་འདྲེན་ཁ་སྒྱུར།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

sPyan ’dren kha sgyur/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Prayers inviting the meditation deities to bestow blessings by empowerment, statement, transmission, and oral instruction to achieve the two accomplishments 

5. Number of folios

1

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

A prayer for the temporary changes to divine invitations

8. Transcription of colophon

 

9. Translation of colophon

 

10. General remarks

 

11. Remarks on script

’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Single folio

13. Size

7.2 × 34 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, cloudy type, 1-2 layers, soft

17. Paper thickness

0.14–0.16 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

 

20. AMS 14C dating

 

21. XRF analysis

 

22. RTI

 

23. GCMS

 

 

Drangsong_055

Digital copy

Drangsong_055

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