DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 214 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། མཛས་རྗོད[བཟླས་ཆོག]རིན་ཆེན་གྲོན[སྒྲོན]མའི་སྨོན་ལམ་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | mDzas rjod[bzlas chog] rin chen gron[sgron] ma’i smon lam bzhugs so/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayers to achieve liberation from all the difficulties of the present life, to be able to have benefits, to be able to practice the Dharma, to cherish one’s life, and ultimately to attain enlightenment for the benefit of others. |
| 5. Number of folios | 7 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | Recitation ritual entitled “Prayer of the Precious Lamp”. |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | de ni bdag don du smon lam ’debs pa’o/ de ltar sgrib sbyang pa rin chen sgron me smon rdzogs+ho/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | The prayer for your own blessing is over. The Prayer of the Precious Lamp that removes obscurations is over. |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7.7 × 26 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | The title folio of this manuscript is ornamented with a tripartite frame traced with double red lines and patterned with decorative motifs. Wide vegetal scrollwork subtly drawn with red ink fill the upper and lower bands of the middle section of that frame, while similar yet narrower designs and some sorts of meanders fill its left and right sections, respectively. Simple vertical bands further separate the three sections from each other and border the lateral ones. |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.15–0.20 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 right bottom margin |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S
Trace elements: Ti, Zn, Mn, Si |
| 22. RTI | |
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