Drangsong No. 025

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 025

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། སྟག་ལ་མེ་འབར་གིས[གི]བྱ་དཀར་མཆེ་བཟོགས[བཟོག[བཞུགས་པ་ལེགསྷོ།། བཀྲ་ཤིས་ པར་ཤོག་ཤོག་ཤོག

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

sTag la me ’bar gyis[gyi] bya dkar mche bzlogs[bzlog] bzhugs pa legs s+ho/ bkra shis par shog shog shog/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A ritual for repelling all bad omens

5. Number of folios

7

6. Scribe’s name

7. Translation of title

Ritual to repel “white bird fangs” (?) according to the sTag la me ‘bar cycle

8. Transcription of colophon

rdzogs so/ dge’o/ bkra shis/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

It is completed. Virtue. Blessings, blessings.

10. General remarks

This text, which belongs to the sTag la me ’bar sādhana cycle, contains a list of inauspicious signs and bad omens.

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.1 × 34.2 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 1-2 layers, white paint on the paper surface, polishing traces

17. Paper thickness

0.16

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 7

19. Fibre analysis

Stellera sp.

20.  AMS 14C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements:  Ca, Fe, K, S

Trace elements:  Ti, Zn, Sr, Si

22. RTI

23. GCMS

 

Drangsong 025

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