Drangsong No. 306

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 306
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་མགྲོན་བཞུགསྷོ།། ལེགསྷོ།།

 

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Yon tan gyi mgron bzhugs+ho// legs+ho//

 

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Text for the invitation of the “guests of quality”, one of the category of divine guests who are invited as the beneficiaries of a propitiation ritual.
5. Number of folios 6
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title The major text of the guests of quality
8. Transcription of colophon bkra shis shog/ mchod pa gcig btang ngo/ dge’o//
9. Translation of colophon Blessings. Make an offering. Virtue.
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, large and small
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.4 × 29 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers (1 layer on f. 6)
17. Paper thickness 0.22–0.33 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 6
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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