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IOL Tib J 320
- Record Id:
- 040-003652680
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003652467
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102477687.0x00000c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOL Tib J 320
- Title:
- Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang, no title
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- International Dunhuang Project
Stein Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003652467
040-003652680 - Is part of:
- IOL Tib J : Tibetan manuscripts from the Stein Collection.
IOL Tib J 320 : Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang, no title - Hierarchy:
- 032-003652467[0056]/040-003652680
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOL Tib J
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 6 folios/panels
- Digitised Content:
- https://idp.bl.uk/collection/63878D031F0E4B3D85B0AB0572511830
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 1000
- Date Range:
- 0750-1000
- Era:
- CE
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Stein Collection
International Dunhuang Project
IOL Tib J 320
Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang, no title
Contents
Language(s): Tibetan
Incipit: 1r.1@//_:_//dang por mchod pa'i yon tan gzhung las 'byung ba' /prayer
A prayer of invitation and offering. It begins with the necessary preliminaries for the patron (yon bdag) who is performing the offering.Indra,BrahmaandŚivaare invoked as worldy protectors. It is worth noting that the pre-Buddhist Tibetan concept of thebla ri(1v.2) appears here. The prayer proceeds to an invitation to the buddhas of the ten directions, which include the five main buddhas of theVajradhātu maṇḍala. Then sixteen bodhisattvas are invited. Following the invitations, the prayer for the actual offerings is given. Here, the making of butter lamps (mar mye) is associated with receiving prophecies. The sixth and final page of the manuscript, which is without a page number, contains the first part of the prayer again, written in a haphazard way.
Explicit: 6v.6dga' dang gus dang dad pa mchog ni nyer bzhag te //byang chub sems dpa' kun tu 'od la phyag tshal lo //Physical Description
sheets are glued together from more pieces of paperForm: pothiMaterial: paperSupport: manuscript, ink on paperPaper Layers: 2or3
Laid lines (min): 17?
Laid lines (max): 17?
Materials: manuscript, ink on paper
Extent: 6 folios/panelsDimensions (leaf): 8.8 × 45.5 cm.Foliation:Pagination type: prefixed letter and numerals
Condition
- Conditionaverage
- Surface_DirtTrue
- DistortionTrue
- Tears_or_LossesTrue
- Input_PersonBarbara Rodgers
- Input_date 20/11/03
Layout
Columns:1
Margins and Guidelines: red/light brown
Columns per panel/lines per page: 5
Hand(s)
History
Origin: 0750-1000DHMG.(Dunhuang Mogao) DHMG.17.
Provenance and Acquisition
Stein 1906-8
All data except for msContents were drawn from the legacy IDP 4D database
Record created byUlrich Pagel 01/01/97
Modified bySam van Schaik 01/03/16
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