DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 230 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། བཤད་བྱང་བཞུགས་པའི་དབུ་ལ་གཟིགས། བཀྲ་ཤིས། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | bShad byang bzhugs pa’i dbu la gzigs/ bkra shis/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayer to the meditational deity and the eighteen mighty members of his entourage to enable one to destroy the malicious encroachments of demons and enemies, to destroy all pollution and ignorance in oneself, and to attain enlightenment. |
| 5. Number of folios | 10 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | “See the front page for the title. Blessings” |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | |
| 9. Translation of colophon | The text is incomplete. |
| 10. General remarks | According to the preface of the text, the full title of this text is “The Ninefold thunderbolt of Activities of the Three Razor Cycles of the Meditational Deity sTag la me ’bar” (Drag po spu gri skor gsum gyi las sbyor thog mde’u dgu bsgril zhes bya ba)
It is worth noting that the list of evils that cause pollution includes antipathy between siblings or clan members, teacher-disciple antipathy, and the betrayal of the gods by their priests (Pha spun snying log/ slob bu dam log/ lhe’u lha log) (v230_IMG_5804A.jpg)
The text also gives the names of the thirteen different kinds of bad death associated with the famous funeral rites called gri :
gri thabs bcu gsum: 1) mda’ gri zer pa; 2) me gri tshig ’bar; 3) sta gri zhun dmar; 4) ngal gri dub pa; 5) chu gri dha sha; 6) gar gri phyam pa; 7) bu gri ’gab dmar; 8) gri gri smug po; 9) thog gri ’tshig pa; 10) bgegs gri dmig ’bur; 11) rdib gri sub mo; 12) rdo gri ’dan dmar; 13) bgegs gri sbas bu.
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| 11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 9 × 33.4 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, white painted surface |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.14–0.23 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
