1. Text number 

Drangsong 123

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།བྱིས་པ་གདོན་ཆེན་བཅོ་ལྔའི་མདོས་པེ[དཔེ]བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

Byis pa’i gdon chen bco lnga’i mdos dpe bzhugs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

A mdos ritual to protect children from fifteen demons

5. Number of folios

10

6. Scribe’s name

Drangsong Khro bo

7. Translation of title

A mdos ritual [for the protection of] children from the fifteen great gdon demons.

8. Transcription of colophon

Ces pa yi ge ’di yang/ ’a ba bya ra rgang pa’i rgyud pa’i tha shal pa/ khro ming zer pa’i la khis byas spur lung khyer ’dra pa khos/ dbe’ [dben] nas[gnas] bsam gling rgon[dgon] pa ru/ yang rgon[dgon] g.yung drung ’khang bzang nang ’du/ stag lha’i thun bsang bris/ khas pa rnams gyi thugs khrel ma rnang mdzod/ bkra shis/

9. Translation of colophon

This text was written by me, named Khro bo, an inferior member of the Bya ra rgang clan, who float around like a bird’s feather in wind, when I was working hard in the practice of sTag la tantra in Yungdrung Khangzang, the upper building of the remote site of Samling monastery. May wise people not be embarrassed [at this text]. Blessings.

10. General remarks

11. Remarks on script

Mainly tshugs thung, with instruction passages in ’khyug ma tshugs.

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.3 × 35 cm

14. Layout

15. Illustrations and decorations

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers

17. Paper thickness

0.34–0.36 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

Daphne sp. with singular cotton fibres

20. AMS ¹⁴C dating

21. XRF analysis

Main elements: Fe, Ca, K, S, Si, Cl

Trace elements: P, Ti, Mn, Cu, Al

22. RTI

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

23. GCMS