Drangsong No. 142

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 142

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།རིག་འཛིན་འདུས་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བྱིན་རླབས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

Rig ’dzin ’dus pa’i gsol ’debs byin rlabs phun tshogs bzhus+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Prayers to various deities and lineage masters of Bon.

5. Number of folios

5

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Prayers for the assembly of knowledge-holders, [entitled] “Wonderful Blessings”.

8. Transcription of colophon

 

9. Translation of colophon

 

10. General remarks

Incomplete

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.3 × 32.8 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, polishing traces, the surface processed with a white paint

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

Main elements: Ca, K, S

Trace elements: Fe, Ti, Zn, Sr, Si

22. RTI

 

23. GCMS

 

 

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