Bhuddhist Dhāraṇī vol. cha

MARDZONG MANUSCRIPTS

Title:   Bhuddhist Dhāraṇī vol. cha

Type of object:  Manuscript on paper in loose leaf form

Category/Genre:  Buddhist Canon

Find site: Mardzong caves GPS coordinates: 29°10’08.7″N 83°59’27.1″E / 29.169083, 83.990861 Elevation 3493 m above sea level.

Location (for place name): Choede Monastery Antique Museum



ཆ འཕགས་པ་ གཉིས་

cha ’phags pa gnyis

ཆ འཕགས་པ་ གཉིས་

cha ’phags pa gnyis

ཆ  མཛེས་པ  བཅུ་ཐམ་པ

cha  mdzes pa  bcu tham pa

 

རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་འཛི་ན་མི་ཏྲ་དང་། ད་ན་ཤི་ལ་དང་། ཞུ་ཆེན་གྱི་ལོ་ཙྪ་བ་དེ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ངྷེས་སྒྱུར་ཅིང་ཞུ་ཏེ། གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པ་།།

rgya gar gyi mkhan po ‘dzi na mi tra dang/ da na shi la dang / zhu chen gyi lo ts+tsha ba de ye shes dhes sgyur cing zhus te/ gtan la phab pa //

ཆ  གཟུངས ཉི་ཤུ་ཐམ་པ

cha  gzungs  nyi shu tham pa

བོད་སྐད་དུ།

bod skad du/


 WRITING/COPYING


Language: Tibetan

Script: dbu can

Text execution: hand written

Writing instrument:  bamboo/wooden pen


FORMAT AND LAYOUT


Dpe cha (Pothī format)

Size (h x w): 15.5 × 65 cm

Full frame – (measurements): 11 × 55.05 cm

Lines per page: 4–7

Guidelines: 1.8 cm

Distances in between upper lines of text: 1.8 cm

Measurement from page: 2

Pagination/foliation: Foliation


MATERIALS


Type of paper: Handmade with woven type of mould

Raw material: Steller chameajasme and Daphne/Edgeworthia sp.

Papermaking sieve print (woven, laid lines /3cm, chain line intervals): Woven (textile)

Number of layers: 3–4, possibly more

Thickness of paper:

0.28–0.36 on page 2; 0.21–0.36 on page 3; 0.25–0.34 on page 4

Texture:  Polished

Dyes:  None

Ink colour: black, red