Eight Tibetan texts in Mongolian script

GDC Mong G1 : 23

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Ms, pothi, size 17,8 : 7,4 cm, 8 individual texts: (1) fol. 1-3r, 13 lines; (2) 1-6r, 13-14 lines; (3) 1-5r, 13-14 lines; (4) 1-5v, 12-13 lines, incomplete; (5) 1-4r, 14-15 lines; (6) 1-5r, 12-13 lines; (7) 1-5r, 13-14 lines; (8) 1-5r, 12-13 lines, left margin r : Mongolian pagination, texts written in black and framed in red; yellowish, machine-made paper.

Along with the texts come two hand-written pages in English which contain a description of the individual texts. My sincere thanks goes to Prof. Lhagvademchig Jadamba (National University of Mongolia), who was able to identify seven of the texts.

rGya nag skag bzlog zhes bya ba bzhugs so

Cover title: Jangγadaγ orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) baγba jambala (2) nagboo la čangčaloo: [’phags pa ’jam dpal nag po la phyag tshal lo]

Term. (3r) (10) samba čoyišing (11) töbyurčig:: [bsam pa chos bzhin ’grub ’gyur cig]

A popular ritual text.

’Dod khams bdag mo bzhugs so

Cover title: Dotuγum doγmuu orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) juu dotuγum doγmuu [bhyo ’dod khams bdag mo]

Term. (6r) (7) berel čingyuγ (8) šuγ-a::

A prayer to dPal ldan lha mo.

Theg chen gso sbyong len tshul bzhugs so

Cover title: Tingčin sojing abqu sudur orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) sangye čöyidang γurban-ta [sangs rgyas chos dang …]

Term. (5r) (8) tanibar (9) majarčiγ: : manggalam::

A text for observing uposatha.

Yul lha bkra shis dpal bar gi bsang

Cover title: Yulalγ-a tasibalabar jii-yin sang dujii jilba šingsuu-a:

Inc. (1) 81) namo guru qayagirba:

Term. (5v) (14) qurdun jayimalγ-a (15) köbi bolan-a čišii

Incense offering to the Yul lha.

Dayisuγ orosibai

Cover title : Dayisuγ orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) erikegüng čibdaγ

Term. (4r) (5) bal-a orolbursuγ: (6) mangglalam

Unidentified.

Byin brlabs mchog stsol ma

Cover title: Činglaba čogčin orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) činglaba čoγčin (2) jarčid lam-a

Term. (5r) (6) orlbai-yin dasisuγ:: (7) manggalam

Composed by the First Jibtsundamba Qutuγtu Zanabazar (1635-1723).

mGon po’i bsang bzhugs so

Cover title: γombuu-yin sang orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) om ā huu: (2) kemen γurban-ta ügele:

Term. (5r) (3) čisüm dounam (4) dounam dübei (5) dasisuγ::

Incense offering to Mahākāla.

’Jig rten mgon po [la phyag ’tshal lo]

Cover title: Jigdeng γombu orosibai:

Inc. (1) (1) om jigdeng

Term. (5t) (9) qoyiba: güngdebe (10) yur

A praise to Mahākāla.

This corpus of texts consists of eight popular Tibetan ritual texts in Mongolian script. Prof. Lhagvademchig Jadamba assumes that the transcriptions were used by a lay person who could not read Tibetan but needed to perform some basic rituals in Tibetan (email communication, 08.03.2024).