DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 299 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
སྙན་རྒྱུད་ཐོས་གྲོལ་བར་དོ་ཕྲེང་སྒྲོལ་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | sNyan rgyud thos grol bar do phreng sgrol bzhugs so// |
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Liberation through hearing the oral dharma teachings during the Bardo (between death and rebirth). The text belongs to the Zhi khro collection, the cycle of peaceful and wrathful meditational deities. |
5. Number of folios | 35 |
6. Scribe’s name | None |
7. Translation of title | Liberation from Bardo through hearing of the oral instructions
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10. General remarks | The text is missing after fol. 35 (V001_IMG_0555A), and there is therefore no colophon. |
11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 9 × 30.5 cm |
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16. Paper type | Woven, 1 layer |
17. Paper thickness | 0.27–0.33 mm |
18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 2 |
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