Drangsong No. 297

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong 297
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། རིག་འཛིན་ཀུན་གྲོལ་གྲགས་པའི་སྦྱར་པའི་ཁ་མཆུའི་བཟློག་པ་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration Rig ’dzin kun grol grags pa’i sbyar pa’i kha mchu’i bzlog pa bzhugs+ho/
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents Ritual to dispel rumors, and to be spared from their harm.
5. Number of folios 1
6.  Scribe’s name
7. Translation of title The ritual for reversing gossip created by Kun grol grags pa.
8. Transcription of colophon bkra shis/ dge’o/
9. Translation of colophon Blessings, virtue.
10. General remarks Kun grol grags pa (1700- ?), from the sMon rgyal family in eastern Tibet, is one of the four renowned treasure revealers in the New Bon tradition.
11. Remarks on script ’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.2 × 29.5 cm
14. Layout Six text lines in between side margins sketched with red ink.
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, 2 layers with many fibre bundles within the paper structure.
17. Paper thickness 0.26–0.36 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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