1. Text number 

Drangsong 150

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། ནག་པོ་བདུད་ཀྱིས[ཀྱི]མདའ་ཟོར་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

Nag po bdud kyis[kyi] mda’ zor bzhugs pa legs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Aprayer about dMu bdud ‘byams pa khrag mgo, a protector of Yungdrung Bon, and recounts the myth of how the priests and masters of the former Bon invited dMu bdud to act as protectors and destroy enemies and demons.

5. Number of folios

11

6. Scribe’s name

Drangsong Khro bo

7. Translation of title

The Arrow-Missile of the Black Demon

8. Transcription of colophon

ces pa’i tshul ’di ni/ gstad med la kha’i bya gro[sgro] rlung khyer khro bo’i/ dben gnas bsam bsten[gtan] dge dgon du/ g.yung drung khang zang[bzang] du dbal khyung dmar po’i thun gab[skabs] la bris/

9. Translation of colophon

In this manner, I, Khro bo, like a fluttering feather in the wind who has no fixed abode, writes in the beautiful room of the virtuous bSam gtan [gling] monastery, while performing the red Garuda practice.

10. General remarks

This copy was made in bSam gling monastery in Dolpo by Khro bo, a member of the Drangsong family who was the scribe of several texts in the collection.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.5 × 34.3 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 1-2 layers, soft and smooth

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.17 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 11

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20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

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