Drangsong No. 52

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number

Drangsong 052

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།ལོའི་སྐྱེག[སྐེག]གྱུར་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration

Lo’i skyeg[skeg] gyur ba’i cho ga bzhugs s+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Ritual for removing the hindrances of each year of the twelve-year cycle.

5. Number of folios

2

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Ritual for reversing hindrances of the years

8. Transcription of colophon

9. Translation of colophon

10. General remarks

The text is incomplete.

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9 × 34.2 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 1–3 layers

17. Paper thickness

0.18–0.22 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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