Drangsong No. 233

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

 

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Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། རྩ་པ[བ]སྔགས ཀྱི བསྟོད་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩེ[རྩ]༡་བཞུགས་སྷོ།།

༄༅།། མཛད་པ་བཅུ་གཉིས་བཞུགས་སོ།།

༄༅།། སྔོན་རྣམས་མ་བཞུགསྷོ།།

Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration  rtsa pa[ba] sngags kyi bstod pa nyi zhu rtse[rtsa] 1 bzhugs+ho/mdzad pa bcu gnyis bzhugs so//

sngon rnams ma bzhus+ho//

A brief summary of the item’s contents Verses of praise to the Bon female deity Shes rab byams ma, sTon pa gshen rab – the founder of the Bon religion, as well as the masters of Bon.
Number of folios 6+2+2

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Translation of title

Twenty-one tantric hymns in praise [of Shes rab byams ma]

Twelve great deeds [performed by gShen rab mi bo che]

Praise to the past masters

Transcription of colophon  rJod cing ’dres so/ bkra shis dpal bar ’dzam gling rgyan du shog/ dge’o/
Translation of colophon  It is completed. May the blazing glory of goodness be the ornament of the world.
Remarks  Among these texts, the first is considered to have been written by the one of earliest Bon treasure revealers Khor tsthang ’brug lha (956-1077), and the second was composed by mNyam med Shes rab rgyal mtshan (1356-1415); the third – praises to past Bon masters – was written by the Sakya pa master Rong ston Shes bya kun rig (1367-1449) when he was a follower of Bon.

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XRF Analysis

 Main elements : Ca, S, K, Fe, Cl
Trace elements: Si, P, Ti, Cu

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