Drangsong No. 199

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 199
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།སྔོགས་དསྔོགས་ཡོངས་བསང་བཞུགསྷོ།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration sNgogs dsngogs yongs bsang bzhugs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Prayers and praise for all the virtues of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; an aspiration for the flourishing of the doctrine, the diligent practice of individuals, for awakening, for the absence of disasters, diseases, and wars in the mundane world, and for bountiful harvests.
5. Number of folios 6
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title Dedication prayer
8. Transcription of colophon ’grub[sgrub] gnas bshug ri nyi shar du bris so/ a bzo bsam stan[gtan]…
9. Translation of colophon Written by A dzom bsam gtan (?) at the meditation site Bshug ri nyi shar (unidentified).
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script ’bru tsha/ dpe tshugs hybrid?
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.1 × 29.5 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.19–0.27 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Sr, Si

22. RTI
23. GCMS

 

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