Drangsong No. 138

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 138

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།མཁའ་ལ་རང་བཞིན་མངའ་གསོལ་བཞུགས་པ་ལེགས་སོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

mKha’ la rang bzhin mnga’ gsol bzhugs pa legs so//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Praises to the various manifestations of Srid pa’i rgyal mo and their virtues, in order to receive their protection and empowerment.

5. Number of folios

5

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

Entreaty for empowerment by the [goddess of the] Nature of the Sky.

8. Transcription of colophon

 

9. Translation of colophon

 

10. General remarks

Incomplete.

11. Remarks on script

’bru tsha, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.8 × 33.3 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, 3 layers, polishing traces

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.17 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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