Drangsong No. 124

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 124

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།དགྲ་བོ་བྲུབ་པ་གྲི་བོ་དཀར་དམར་དང་གྲི་ཁ་མཚོན་སྒྱུར་རྣམས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

dGra bo brub pa gri bo dkar dmar dang gri kha mtshon sgyur rnams bzhugs+ho//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

The origin, classification of the ghosts of victims of bad death, and the means of preventing their intrusion

5. Number of folios.

4

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Burying one’s enemies, the white and red ghosts of victims of bad death, and reversing the direction of the ghosts of victims of bad death

8. Transcription of colophon

 

9. Translation of colophon

 

10. General remarks

The text is incomplete.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.7 × 34.8 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.17 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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