DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
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1. Text number |
Drangsong 152 |
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2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།ཤོག་དྲིལ་དགུ་པ་སྙན་རྒྱུད་བཀའ་བསྲུངས་དཔོན་གཡོག་གིས[གི]སྒྲུབ་པ་ལེགསོ།། |
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3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
Shog dril dgu pa snyan rgyud bka’ bsrungs dpon g.yog gis[gi] sgrub pa legs so// |
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
It is a prayer about the Queen of the Universe, the main protector goddess of the treasure tradition of Bon, as well as the other goddesses who are belong to the main deity cycle and live in the east, west, north and south directions. |
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5. Number of folios |
8 (7 + 1) |
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6. Scribe’s name |
Drangsong Khro bo |
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7. Translation of title |
The practice of the main and secondary protectors of the treasure teaching |
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8. Transcription of colophon |
dge’o/ bkra shis/ snyon pa khro bo ming gis yi ge de las med/ bris pa bya zhing dgongs la smro/
zhes brjod la gang gnod pa’i phyogs su bkyal[bskyal] lo/ yul ni mar sprang ngo/ dam sri nag mo’i mdos chung ’di/ gshen rab mi po’i[pos] mdzad pa rdzogs so// bkra shis par shog/ cig zhus/ dag go/ |
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9. Translation of colophon |
Goodness and good fortune. The madman named Khro bo wrote only this, and (? dgongs la smro).
After the recitation, [the effigy] should be conveyed in the direction from which the harm came. This small mdos ritual of the black vampire composed by gShen rab mi bo is over. Blessings. Checked once. It is correct. |
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10. General remarks |
This text is part of the cycle of Srid pa’i rgyal mo, the Queen of the Universe. The style of the individual sheets and the afterword show that it was also copied from the Samling (bsam gling) monastery by the Khro bo of the Drangsong family.
The last folio, however, does not belong to the rest of the text, as can be seen from the colophon, which belongs to a short mdos ritual for the removal of vampires (sri), but the first part is missing. The marginal inscription states: nag mdos 4 la tshang – “this is the fourth and last page of the black mdos ritual” |
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11. Remarks on script |
dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs |
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12. Format |
Loose leaves |
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13. Size |
9.1 × 34.1 cm |
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14. Layout |
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15. Illustrations and decorations |
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16. Paper type |
Woven, 1-2 layers, soft |
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17. Paper thickness |
0.15–0.17 mm |
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18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 4 |
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20. AMS 14C dating |
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