DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
Digital microscope images
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 233 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། རྩ་པ[བ]སྔགས ཀྱི བསྟོད་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩེ[རྩ]༡་བཞུགས་སྷོ།།༄༅།། མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་བཞུགས་སོ།།༄༅།། སྔོན་རྣམས་མ་བཞུགསྷོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | rTsa pa[ba] sngags kyi bstod pa nyi shu rtse[rtsa] 1 bzhugs+ho/
mDzad pa bcu gnyis bzhugs so// sNgon rnams ma bzhus+ho// |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Verses of praise to the Bon female deity Shes rab byams ma, sTon pa gshen rab – the founder of the Bon religion, as well as the masters of Bon.
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| 5. Number of folios | 10 (6+2+2) |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | Twenty-one tantric hymns in praise [of Shes rab byams ma]
Twelve great deeds [performed by gShen rab mi bo che] Praise to the past masters
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| 8. Transcription of colophon | rjod cing ’dres so/ bkra shis dpal bar ’dzam gling rgyan du shog/ dge’o/
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| 9. Translation of colophon | It is recited and completed. May the blazing glory of good fortune be the ornament of the world. |
| 10. General remarks | Among these texts, the first is considered to have been written by the one of earliest Bon treasure revealers Khor tsthang ’brug lha (956-1077), and the second was composed by mNyam med Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1356-1415); the third – praises to past Bon masters – was written by the Sakya pa master Rong ston Shes bya kun rig (1367-1449) when he was a follower of Bon. |
| 11. Remarks on script | ’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8.2 × 28.3 cm |
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| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2-3 layers, smooth, white painted surface |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.23–0.33 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 8 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | Daphne sp. |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
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| 23. GCMS | |
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XRF Analysis |
Main elements : Ca, S, K, Fe, Cl |
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