Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions: The Written Word and Its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere de Orna Almogi (Ed.) - 2016

Aditya Prakashan, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. New. 18 x 25 cm. Contents: The rNying ma rgyud `bum Set at the National Archives Kathmandu: The History of Its Production and Transmission by ORNA ALMOGI; Different Facets of Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs by MICHELA CLEMENTE; Early Tibetan Printing in Southern La stod: Remarks on a 1407 Print Produced at Shel dkar by HILDEGARD DIEMBERGER; Buddhist Hagiographies from the Borderlands: Further Prints from Mang yul Gung thang by FRANZ-KARL EHRHARD; Overview of Tibetan Paper and Papermaking: History, Raw Materials, Techniques and Fibre Analysis by AGNIESZKA HELMAN-WAZ.NY; A Collection of Miscellaneous Kanjur Folios including Four Illustrated Pages from a rNying ma Tantra in statu nascendi by MATTHEW KAPSTEIN; A Collection of Miscellaneous Kanjur Folios including Four Illustrated Pages from a rNying ma Tantra in statu nascendi; The Uses of Implements are Different: Reflections on the Functions of Tibetan Manuscripts by SAM VAN SCHAIK; Some Palaeographic Observations on Tibetan Legal Documents by PETER SCHWIEGER ... Sacred Words, Precious by DORJI WANGCHUK. Printed Pages: 420. NA