DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 225 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། བསྙན་རྒྱུད་རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་གསལ་གྱི་ཚོགས་བསྐངས་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
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| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bsNyan rgyud rin chen sgron gsal gyi tshogs bskangs bzhugs+ho/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | An feast offering ritual for the meditational deities and the masters who reveal the treasures, as well as their successors. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. Number of folios | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. Scribe’s name | dBang ldan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. Translation of title | The feast offering of the precious clear lamp of the oral transmission | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis/ dge’o/ sgo dzo blo gros rgyal mtshan gyis yang dbyen[dben] thang lha’i gnas su bsbyar ba dge legs sbyor/ bkra shis/ ’gug skyabs zhal dro/ dbang ldan bdag gis yi ge ’di bris pa lags/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Translation of colophon | Blessings. Virtue. Completed by sGo dzo Blo gros rgal mtshan (?) in the retreat of the Thang la mountain. Virtue, Good luck! Copied by me, the name of dBang ldan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. General remarks | The relevant texts in this Drangsong collection show us that Yung drung gling pa (1346-1405), one of the pioneering figures of the new Bon tradition, revealed the treasure text of “the Triad of the Father and his [Two] Sons, the Three” (Yab sras gsum) and that it was subsequently transmitted to the Bru and gShen families in Central Tibet, where it was passed on and developed.
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| 11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha, small dpe tshugs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. Format | Loose leaves | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Size | 8 × 23 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth, polished, possibly with white paint application | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.17–0.40 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 left upper corner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 20. AMS 14C dating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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