DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
1. Text number | Drangsong 310 |
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
སྣང་སྲིད་ཞི་བ་ཆེན་མོས[མོ]ལས་གཞི་བདག་མཆོད་བསྐོར[སྐོང]་བཞུགསྷོ |
3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | sNang srid zhi ba chen mos [mo] las gzi bdag mchod bskor[bskong] bzhugs+ho/
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Offering to and appeasement of all the earthly divinities, such as the gnyan, klu and sa bdag, part of the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World. |
5. Number of folios | 9 |
6. Scribe’s name | |
7. Translation of title | Offering and appeasement for local deities according to the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World. |
8. Transcription of colophon | snang srid zhi ba chen mo’i/ man ngag ti ta gsal bar bstan/ dran pa bdag gi[gis] go bde’i phyir/ skal ldan bu la sa ma ya/ bkra shis/ rdzogs so/ dge’o// |
9. Translation of colophon | The main points of the Great Ceremony for Peace in the Phenomenal World have been presented here. I, Dran pa nam mkha’, have [composed this] in order that it should be easy to understand; this so this or the fortunate to easy to understand. Blessings. Completed. Virtue. (0704A) |
10. General remarks | |
11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
12. Format | Loose leaves |
13. Size | 8.4 × 29 cm |
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16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers |
17. Paper thickness | 0.25–0.33 mm |
18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
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20. AMS 14C dating | |
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