Drangsong No. 32

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

XRF Analysis

 Main elements : Ca, Fe, K
Trace elements: S, Cl, Sr, Si, Al, Mn, Zn

 

Text number

 

032d
Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། བསྒྲིབ[སྒྲིབ]གསེལ[སེལ]འདོས[མདོས]ལ་བལྟད[ལྟད]མོ་ལྟ་བ་དུན་ཙེ་བཟོར[ཟོར]དུ་བྱེད་པ་དེ་རྣམས་ཡོད། བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབར་འཛམ་གླིང་བརྒྱན[རྒྱན]དུ་མཛེས།

Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

bsgrib[sgrib] gsel[sel] ’dos[mdos] la bltad[ltad] mo lta ba dun tse bzor[zor] du byed pa de rnams yod/ bkra shis dpal ’bar ’dzam gling brgyan[rgyan] du mdzes/

A brief summary of the item’s contents

This ritual text consists of three parts: the elimination of all obscurations based on visualization; sending out the thread-cross ransom; making the demons open the way for the ransom.

Number of folios  3

Item number and filenames of the corresponding photographs

 

V032_IMG_1528 – 1531

 

Translation of title

The thread-cross ransom ritual and a magical missile (zor) ritual of the “Apostate Monk who is Watching the Spectacle” for the elimination of all obscurations

Transcription of colophon

zhes brgya’am [dang?] nyi zhu rtsa 1 brjod la/ brgya lam[ dang?]3’do [brjod ?] lha khang zhig ral ’am[lam]/ mchod rten byin che sar skyal[bskyal]lo/

 ’di spyi rgyug mdos kys[kyi] bsngo tshul bsang ’dus kyis mdzad pa’o// bkra shis/

 ces dkar gtor gser bskems[skyems] rnams ’bul lo/ mdos bzlog zor 3 gyis sna ser tshar ro/ shu shu[shog gu] lag nas yi ge ga[dka’] mo ma byung/ bkra shis/

Translation of colophon

After chanting 122 or 103 times, take [the thread-cross ransom offering] to the ruins of a dilapidated temple, or to the side of a major stupa.

This is a mainstream thread-cross ritual dedication method composed by bSang ’dus (gSang ba ’dus pa?); good fortune.

Offer a white torma and a golden libation. The sna ser (?) for the thread-cross ritual, the repulsion and the magical missile ritual is completed. Good fortune.

Remarks

This texts belongs to the sādhana of  the Bon divinity sTag la.

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Fibre Composition

 

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