DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS
| 1. Text number | Drangsong 179 |
| 2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan |
༄༅།། བརྣག་པ་ལས་ཀྱི་བྱང་བུའི་བཤད་པ་མ་རིག་མུན་སེལ་བཞུགསྷོ། |
| 3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration | brNag pa las kyis[kyi] byang bu’i bshad pa ma rig mun sel bzhugs+ho/ |
| 4. A brief summary of the item’s contents | Ritual of propitiation for the wrathful and peaceful meditational deities and all of the dharma protectors of Yungdurng Bon to receive empowerment with which to destroy all enemies and achieve personal liberation. |
| 5. Number of folios | 17 |
| 6. Scribe’s name | None |
| 7. Translation of title | Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance: an explanation of the task of sending forth the protective divinities [to destroy enemies] |
| 8. Transcription of colophon | |
| 9. Translation of colophon | |
| 10. General remarks | The text is incomplete. It belongs to the collection of Khro bo, the cycle of wrathful meditational deities. |
| 11. Remarks on script | dpe tshugs, large and small |
| 12. Format | Loose leaves |
| 13. Size | 8.5 × 30 cm |
| 14. Layout | |
| 15. Illustrations and decorations | |
| 16. Paper type | Woven, 1-2 layers, smooth |
| 17. Paper thickness | 0.13–0.20 mm |
| 18. Nos of folio sampled | f. 1 |
| 19. Fibre analysis | |
| 20. AMS 14C dating | |
| 21. XRF analysis | |
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