Drangsong No. 158

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number 

Drangsong 158

2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།།དགུ་མིག་ནས་འདོན་པ་དང་སྤར་ཁ་བཏོ་བརྒྱད་བཞུགསྷོ།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration 

dGu mig nas ’don pa dang spar kha bto[gto] brgyad bzhugs+ho//

4. A brief summary of the item’s contents

Procedure to offset the effects of inauspicious combinations of trigrams; dgu mig nas ’don pa is the name of such a procedure.

5. Number of folios

11

6. Scribe’s name

None

7. Translation of title

A ritual to remove the ill-effects of the dgu mig configuration and of the Eight Trigrams

8. Transcription of colophon

ces spar kha’i lto brgyad ’di ’dre lnga bdud gcod phyogs su bskya lo/ bkra shis/ dge’o/ tshar gcig zhus/

9. Translation of colophon

The ritual object of the eight trigrams is sent in the direction of the five demons. Blessings. Virtue. Checked once.

10. General remarks

 

11. Remarks on script

dpe tshugs, ’khyug ma tshugs

12. Format

Loose leaves

13. Size

9.5 × 34.8 cm

14. Layout

 

15. Illustrations and decorations

 

16. Paper type

Woven, 1 layer

17. Paper thickness

0.15–0.31 mm

18. Nos of folio sampled

f. 1

19. Fibre analysis

 

20. AMS 14C dating

 

21. XRF analysis

 

22. RTI

 

23. GCMS