Drangsong No. 335

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 335
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

མདོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་སྔོན་འགྲོ་གོང་སེལ་ལགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration mDos thams cad kyi sngon ’gro gong sel lags so//
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Instructions for casting out the mdos effigy for demons in the ten directions: the four cardinal points, the four interstices, upwards and downwards.
5. Number of folios 2
6. Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title Preliminary steps for all mdos rituals
8. Transcription of colophon ces so// bkra shis par shog/ dge’o// manghalȧ/ de ’phral la bris shing/ phyogs bzhi mtshams brgyad la ’dug cing dge’o//
9. Translation of colophon Good fortune. Write immediately. May all be auspicious in the four directions and the four interstices.
10. General remarks
11. Remarks on script dpe tshugs, dbu can
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 6.8 × 36.3 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers
17. Paper thickness 0.19–0.21 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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