DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number
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Drangsong 256 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། གར་བདུག་ཡུལ་སའི་བསང་མཆོད་ཕུན་འཚོགས[ཚོགས]བདེ་ལེགས་ཀུན་འབྱུང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་པ་དགེ་ལེགས་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་ཤོགས[ཤོག]། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Gar bdug [’dug] yul sa’i bsang mchod phun ’tshogs[tshogs] bde legs kun ’byung zhes bya ba bzhugs pa dge legs ’phel rgyas shogs[shog]/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Prayers and offerings to various guardian deities, especially the numerous worldly spirits of Tibet, for their protection and blessings. |
| 5. Number of folios | 6 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | Fumigation offering to the all-pervading local deities entitled “Source of excellence and marvelous virtue.” May virtue increase and flourish! |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | bkra shis/ zhal gro[dro]/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Blessings; good fortune. |
| 10. General remarks | |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, small ’bru tsha, dbu can |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7.5 × 25.8 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, soft with some creases on the surface |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.11–0.19 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 middle bottom edge |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
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| 23. GCMS |
