Drangsong No. 248

DRANGSONG MANUSCRIPTS

1. Text number Drangsong  248
2. Text title (where present) in Tibetan

༄༅།། འབྱུང་མཐིམ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དོན་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཞུགསྷོ[བཞུགསྷོ]།།

3. Text title (where present) in Wylie transliteration ’Byung mthim ngo sprod don gsal sgron me zhes bya ba bzhugs+ho
4. A brief summary of the item’s contents An account of the process whereby an individual loses consciousness, body temperature, and the physical elements of the body when nearing death, as well as the subsequent entry into the intermediate state (bardo), and merging with the elements of the material world.
5. Number of folios 4
6. Scribe’s name None
7. Translation of title “The Luminous Lamp”, an explanatory introduction to the merging [of the Consciousness with the] Material Elements
8. Transcription of colophon bkra shis/ bkra shis/
9. Translation of colophon Blessings. Blessings.
10. Remarks
11. Remarks on script ’bru tsha
12. Format Loose leaves
13. Size 8.7 × 30.8 cm
14. Layout
15. Illustrations and decorations
16. Paper type Woven, ply, smooth
17. Paper thickness 0.26–0.34 mm
18. Nos of folio sampled f. 1 left bottom corner
19. Fibre analysis
20. AMS 14C dating
21. XRF analysis
22. RTI
23. GCMS