Drangsong No. 137

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 137

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།དྲེགས་པ་སྤྱན་འདྲེན་དབུ་ཕྱོགས་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

Dregs pa spyan ’dren dbu phyogs bzhugs+ho/

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Ritual for the invitation of wrathful deities, manifested by the meditational deity sTag la me ’bar, to destroy various demons.

5. Number of folios

3

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Invitation of the haughty ones (dregs pa)

8. Transcription of colophon

ces spyan drang la rdzags+ho[rdzogs+ho]/ bkra shis s+ho/

9. Translation of colophon

With these words, the invitation is over. Blessings.

10. General remarks

The text belongs to the sādhana cycle of meditation deity sTag la me ’bar.

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

8.5 × 33 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, 2 layers, polishing traces, surface processed with white paint

17. Paper thickness

0.19–0.23 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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