DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 270

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། མན་ངག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཨ་ཁྲིད་ཀྱིས[ཀྱི]སྔོན་འགྲོ་མི་རྟག་པ་དང་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Man ngag rin po che a khrid kyis[kyi] sngon ’gro mi rtag pa dang gsol ’debs bzhugs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Contemplating the impermanence of the External World and Internal Life, and praying for the blessings of the meditation deity and lineage of masters, to attain enlightenment.

5. Number of folios

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

The recollection of impermanence and the prayer of the A khrid Dzogchen system

8. Transcription of colophon

a khrid kyi mi rtag pa ’di ni g.yas ru khar[mkhar] sna dpal du bru ston rgyal ba g.yung drung gis sbyar ba rdzogs+ho/

de nas khra chags med bkra shis rgyal mtshan la rgyud[brgyud]/ de’i a mtsho kun dga’ rgyal mtshan dang don ldan tshul khrims 2 gyi[gyis] bzhus[zhus]/ de’i slob dpon bstan pa ’od zer la rgyud/ de’i rtsa ba’i bla ma’i drung du bdag la’o/ yang bru rgyal ba nas bod pa bsod nams g.yung drung la rgyud[brgyud] pa ’di ltar ro//

9. Translation of colophon

The contemplation of impermanence and the prayer of the A khrid system (of the Great Perfection), completed by Bru ston rGyal ba g.yung drung, at gYas ru mkhar sna dpal monastery.

From here, the lineage was transmitted to bKra shis rgyal mtshan, and accepted by A mtsho Kun dga’ rgyal mtshan, and Don ldan tshul khrims from him, then it was further passed on to Slob dpon bsTan pa ’od zer. From him, it was transmitted to my root Guru and then to me. Additionally, the transmission from Bru rgyal ba gYung drung to Bod pa bSod nams g.yung drung is as follows.

10. Remarks

The colophon of the text provides a list of how the A khrid system teachings were transmitted to the Ya ngal lineage from Central Tibet. The relevant information is complemented by the contents of the text Drangsong 262.

1	dGongs mdzod ri khrod chen po (1038-1096)
2	rTogs ldan sgom chen ’bar ba
3	Grub chen khyung sgo jo g.yung
4	rTogs ldan dam pa tshul shes
5	Sum ston gYor po me dpal (1134-?)
6	A zha bDud rtsi rgyal mtshan
7	A zha Blo gros rgyal mtshan (1198-1263)
8	Rang grol ’Dul ba rgyal mtshan (1239-?)
9	Bru chen rGyal ba g.yung drung (1242-1296)
2	Bru Nam mkha’ ’od zer	Bod sgom bSod nams g.yung drung
11	Bru bsod nams rgyal mtshan (1268-1321)	mKhas grub Tshul khrims ’od zer
12	Bru bSod nams blo gros (1268-1321)	rTogs ldan bsod nams rgyal mtshan
13	Bru rNam rgyal ka ra	Gar tsha bSod nams rgyal mtshan
14	mKhas grub rin chen blo gros	sPa ston bstan rgyal bzang po
		Slob dpon Khro bo rgyal mtshan
15	mNyam med shes rab rgal mtshan (1356-1415)
16	mMhas btsun Rin chen rgyal mtshan (1360-?)	rNal ’byor Kun dga’ rgyal mtshan
17	rNam sprul nam mkha’ ye shes	Dran mchog bsTan pa ’od zer
18	Don ldan kun bzang rgyal mtshan (1464-?)	mKhas btsun sMon lam rgyal mtshan
19	mKhas grub blo gros rgyal nmsthan	rTa’u nyi ma rgyal mtshan
20	mNga’ ris bsod nams rgyal mtshan	rTogs ldan blo gros rgyal mtshan
21	bkra shis rgyal mtshan	’Bru sgo Nyi ma ’od zer (1562-1637)
22	A mtsho Kun dga’ rgyal mtshan don ldan tshul khrims	Khyung ston Tshul khrims ’od zer
23	Slob dpon bsTan pa ’od zer	mKhas grub Tshe dbang tshul khrims
24	rTsa ba’i bla ma	Byang sems Tshul khrims rin chen
25	bDag (lDong sgom bsTan pa lhun grub	Yang ston Rin chen rgyal mtshan
		Yang ston ’Od zer rgyal mtshan

11. Remarks on script

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9 × 31 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, ply, cloudy uneven fibre distribution, with many creases on the paper surface

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.36 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 4 left upper corner

19. Fibre analysis

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

22. RTI

23. GCMS

Digital copy