Drangsong No. 323

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 323
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

མ་ཡམས་ནག་མོའི་བཟློག་མདོས་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Ma yams nag mo’i bzlog mdos bzhugs so//
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents A mdos repulsion ritual for the Black Mother of Epidemics
5. Number of folios 5
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title A mdos ritual of repulsion to the many Black Queen deities
8. Transcription of colophon ces chu gnyan rnams mtsho nang du bskyal lo// ma bdud klong dgu’i mdos rdzogs so//

 

9. Translation of colophon Cast the water spirits into a lake; the mdos ritual of the ma bdud goddesses is completed.
10. General remarks Fols [V001_IMG_0869] and [V001_IMG_0870] do not belong to this text cycle.
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 7.3 × 36.2 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.24–0.26 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS


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