1. Text number

Drangsong 021

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།ཕུང་འབར་བཟློག་པའི་བཅའ་ཐབས་དང་མདུན་བསྐྱེད་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང་བཞུགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Phung ’bar bzlog pa’i bca’ thabs dang mdun bskyed gsal ba’i me long bzhugs so/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A torma production manual and practice text for the repulsion of harm from the Bon meditational deity sTag la me ’bar tantric cycle.

5. Number of folios

4

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

Torma production manual of the repulsion by means of the divinity Phung ’bar nag po in the sTag la me ’bar tantric cycle

8. Transcription of colophon

De nas rnga shang[gshang] gis sgra sgrags la gyer ro/ gzhung gis nang nas brda’ tsam yang med pa yin/ ’di’ bca’ zhi[gzhi] mngon rtogs rgyas pa la gsal byor[?] yig chung gtab pa’o/ dun tse ru tra’i lag tu mi shor pa’i gud kol p’o/ gzhung bstan kyang ’di mi bstan pa’i bka’ rgya yod/ bkra shis so/

9. Translation of colophon

In this way, start chanting with the sound of drums and bells, because there is no explanation in the main text, I made notes based on the Dharmabhisamaya. May this not fall into the hands of vow-breaking enemies; even if the main text is shown to others, this one may not be shown. Good fortune!

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha; ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.8 × 33.7 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, white paint on the surface

17. Paper thickness

0.16

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 3

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp.

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements: Si, Cl, Sr, Al, Ti, Mn, Cu, Pb

22. RTI

A)    Rendering  mode:  Default              B)    Rendering mode: Diffuse Gain

23. GCMS