Drangsong No. 246

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong  246
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། དགུ་མིག་དུར་འདོན་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration dGu mig dur ’don bzhugs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents According to the theory of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, a ritual to attenuate the periodical possibility of disasters in one’s personal life.
5. Number of folios 4
6. Scribe’s name None
7. Translation of title
8. Transcription of colophon
9. Translation of colophon
10. General remarks A ritual text related to elemental divination for avoiding fatal calamities.
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.5 × 29 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers, soft with polishing traces and many creases on the surface
17. Paper thickness 0.16–0.30 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 left bottom corner
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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