Drangsong No. 272

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 272
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། སྟག་ལའི་བསྒྲལ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration sTag la’i bsgral ba bzhugs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Visualising the killing of a demon representing the overcoming of the five mental poisons.
5. Number of folios 2
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title The “rite of liberation” of the meditational deity sTag la me ’bar
8. Transcription of colophon
9. Translation of colophon
10. General remarks Incomplete
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, large and small
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7.5 × 27.5 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, ply (most likely 2 layers), smooth but with fibre bundles in the structure of paper
17. Paper thickness 0.09–0.18 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 2
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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