1. Text number 

Drangsong 136

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།བསྙན་གསན་དམག་འགྱེད་གཉིས་བཞུགས་པའི་དབུ་ཕྱོགས་ལགསྷོ།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

bsNyan gsan dmag ’gyed gnyis bzhugs pa’i dbu phyogs lags+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Invocation of all the wrathful and peaceful, male and female protectors of the Bon doctrine against all enemies who are harmful to the teachings, and against the demons that threaten the well-being of mankind.

5. Number of folios

7

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Invocation of war gods and sending forth their army

8. Transcription of colophon

ces brjod/ dmar mchod phyar/ gtor ma ’bul lo/ dgra bgegs srog gis gshed dmar shog/ dge’o/ dga’o/ legs so/  bkra shis s+ho/

9. Translation of colophon

In this way, make the red offerings and offer the tormas. Be the executioners of the life-force of obstructive demons. Virtue. It is good, it is fine. Blessings.

10. General remarks

The last of the dependents which do not belong to this text, its colophon reads:

ces mdos skyal lo/ sting la tshur phyir dza mtho 1 rol lo/ sa tshams bcad do/ dge’o bdag go/ bkra shis+ho/

Convey the mdos effigy, and… (?sting la tshur phyir dza mtho 1 rol lo). The boundary is defined. Virtue. Edited. Blessings.

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.5 × 28.2 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven with fibre bundle, 2 layers

17. Paper thickness

0.18 – 0.34 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, K, S

Trace elements: Fe, Ti, Zn, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS