DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 227 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། སྙན་རྒྱུད་རིག[རིགས]དྲུག་རང་སྦྱོངས་བཅུད་འབྲིལ[འདྲིལ]བཞུགས་སོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | snyan rgyud rig[rigs] drug rang sbyongs bcud ’bril[’dril] bzhugs so/ |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | By contemplating oneself as a Buddha body, one purges oneself of all the sufferings brought about by the six classes beings, thus escaping from ignorance and attaining enlightenment. |
5. Number of folios | 8 |
6. Scribe’s name | |
7. Translation of title | Self-removal of Ignorance of the Six Classes Beings |
8. Transcription of colophon | snyan rgyud rigs drug rang sbyong rddzogs so/ bkra shis/ dge’o/ dag go/ |
9. Translation of colophon | Self-removal of Ignorance of the Six Classes Beings is over. May it be auspicious! Good fortune! Corrected. |
10. General remarks | |
11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 8.5 × 27.7 cm |
14. Layout | |
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16. Paper type | Woven, multilayered, generally rough, but smooth at some areas |
17. Paper thickness | 0.24–0.39 mm |
18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 left bottom corner |
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20. AMS 14C dating | |
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