DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 320 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
འཕགས་པ་ཀོང་ཙེ་འཕྲུལ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་གཏོ་ནག་མགོ་གསུམ་གྱིས་གཞུང་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | ’Phags pa kong tse ’phrul rgyal gyi gto nag mgo gsum gyis [gyi] gzhung bzhugs so//
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| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | The Three-Headed Man of the Black rituals: a ritual with three heads of a tiger, a pig, and an ox to repel all evils. |
| 5. Number of folios | 25 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | The main text of the Three-Headed Man of the Black Rituals according to the exalted Wise King Kong tse. |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | ces brjod la mdos gtsangs bar btang ngo// mdos ’di ni ma mo’i lug mdos zhes kyang bya/ nang bdag stobs ’joms zhes kyang bya/ byis pa ’khrug skyug byung na gcod pa’i mdos lags so// kho bo zhang ston gyis dka’ ba spyad nas zhus pa’o// ston pa’i bka’ gtsang ma’o// bkra shis/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | After saying these words, despatch the mdos effigy to the river (?). This mdos is also known as “the mdos ritual of the ewe”, as well as nang bdag stobs ’joms, that can treat children’s vomiting. Composed by me, Zhang ston, with hard work, it is the pure doctrine of the Buddha. Blessings. |
| 10. General remarks | Folios missing from [V002_IMG_0907A], [V002_IMG_00907B] to [V002_IMG_0909]. |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7.5 × 42 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 2 layers |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.21–0.23 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 7 |
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| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
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