DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
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1. Text number |
Drangsong 134 |
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2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།།ཀོང་ཙེའི[ཙེས]གནང་བའི་ལྕགས་མདའ་བཅུ་གསུམ་བཞུགས་སོ།། |
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3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration |
Kong tse’i [tses]gnang ba’i lcags mda’ bcu gsum bzhugs so// |
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4. A brief summary of the item’s contents |
A ritual of purification through the blood of birds |
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5. Number of folios |
7 |
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6. Scribe’s name |
None |
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7. Translation of title |
Thirteen iron arrows given by Kong tse
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8. Transcription of colophon |
dKa’ ba’i mdos des ’dir phebs shig/ shu bhyo/ ’di skad zhig ni gdan sa chen dpal ldan ri zhing gyi dgon pa’i lho gling ru mgyogs par bzhengs so/ |
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9. Translation of colophon |
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10. General remarks |
dPal ldan ri zhing dgon monastery was founded in the 11th century by Zhu yas legs po (11th century), and subsequently became one of the five main family monasteries in Central Tibet.
The Drangsong collection contains another version of this text (Ds 072). |
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11. Remarks on script |
dpe tshugs |
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12. Format |
Loose leaves |
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13. Size |
7.5 × 34.8 cm 9.1 × 33.4 cm |
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14. Layout |
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15. Illustrations and decorations |
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16. Paper type |
Woven, 2 layers |
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17. Paper thickness |
0.15–0.17 mm |
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18. Nos of folio sampled |
f. 7 |
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19. Fibre analysis |
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20. AMS 14C dating |
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21. XRF analysis |
Main elements: Ca, Fe, K, S, Si Trace elements: Ti, Zn |
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22. RTI |
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23. GCMS |
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