1. Text number

Drangsong 006

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།ཞིང་ལ་འབུ་ཚག་པ་སོགས་སྲིན་འབུའི་རིག[རིགས]དང༔ བྱ་དང་བྱི་བ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་བཞི[ཞི]བའི་བསངས[བསང] གི་རིམ་པ་དགོས་འདོད་འབྱུང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ༔

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Zhing la ’bu tshag pa sogs srin ’bu’i rig[rigs] dang/ bya dang byi ba la sogs pa’i bzhi ba’i bsangs[bsang] gi rim pa dgos ’dod ’byung ba bzhugs so/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Fumigation ritual for removing field-parasites and illnesses and for ending wars.

5. Number of folios

20 + cover + table

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Fumigation ritual for removing grasshoppers, other insects and birds from the fields, and also for treating diseases of humans and cattle and for resolving conflicts, among other things.

8. Transcription of colophon

Mi rje tshe dbang phun tshogs kyis bzhes ngor bde chen gling pas sdan yul rtse mtho padma ri nas bris pa’o/

9. Translation of colophon

Written by bDe chen gling pa at the high peak of Padma Ri, in sDan (=’Dan) yul, at the encouragement of the ruler Tshe dbang phun tshogs

10. General remarks

The author, bDe chen gling pa (1833–?) is a well-known gter ston (treasure discoverer) in both the Bon and Buddhist traditions. The location where the text was written, ’Dan ma, is in ’Jo mda’, Kham, the west bank of the ’Bri chu river.

11. Remarks on script

dbu can throughout

12. Format

Deb ther sewn at the top

13. Size

6.5 × 25.8 cm

14. Layout

2 lines of text on the verso side of the upper cover framed with trapezoidal border painted with yellow, then 4-5 text lines composed between the side margins sketched with double red line. Yellow scribal guidelines clearly visible.

15. Illustrations and decorations

Appended to the text is the image (ink drawing) of a model or substitute for a wooden tablet drawn with a gtor ma and used in ransom rituals. A hexagonal object is called a glud tshab with regards to its function as a substitute in ransom rituals.

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers

17. Paper thickness

0.23–0.27

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp.

20. C14 dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements:  Ca, K, S, Fe, Cl, Si

Trace elements:  P, Mn

22. RTI

23. Chromatography