DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 325 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
ཡུལ་ས་བཙན་མཆོད་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | Yul sa btsan mchod bzhugs so//
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| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Ways of making offerings to the local btsan deities, from Central Tibet but especially in northern and western Tibet. The text also certain deities from Lo Monthang. |
| 5. Number of folios. | 8 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | |
| 7. Translation of title | Offering to the local deities, the btsan |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | dpon gsas rin chen ’od zer gyis/ gzigs snangs la ’khrul nas mdzad pa legs so// dge’o// ’di bzhengs dge ba’i ’bras bu gong/ rgyas shing ’gro don ’phel bar shog/ sems can nad mun zhi bde dang/ lo phyugs shin tu dar rgyas shog/ |
| 9. Translation of colophon | Written by [me], dPon gsas rin chen ’od zer [ ? ], according to [my] vision. May the virtue of composing this [text] benefit all other living beings. May there be no disease and may peace prevail, may grain be abundant, and livestock increase greatly. |
| 10. General remarks | The local deities from Mustang inclue: glo bo del dmar bstan, glo o rgod po’i btsan, gung tu’i stag khyung bstan, na’u lde rgung btsan, de kha’i gyi rgyung btsan, lab kyi mkhan rgyung btsan, sha pan ra gsum btsan, ra sad shel rgyung bstan, sad ka’i gyi ’ur btsan, so ma stag rgyung bstan; see:[ V001_IMG_0847B] |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 7 × 33 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven but laid structure visible on a couple of folios |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.21–0.24 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 5 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
| 22. RTI | |
| 23. GCMS |
