Tibetan printing : : comparisons, continuities and change / / edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard and Peter Kornicki.

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 39
• TeilnehmendeR: Diemberger, Hildegard.; Ehrhard, Franz-Karl.; Kornicki, Peter F.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 596 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps.
• Notes: Papers presented at a workshop on "Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond" held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Three Print Revolutions /; 2 The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols /; 3 Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials /; 4 Empress Shōtoku as a Sponsor of Printing /; 5 From Chongzhen lishu 崇楨曆書 to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo /; 6 A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture /; 7 Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi /; 8 Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note Inspired by Pelliot dic /; 9 The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis /; 10 New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History /; 11 Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School /; 12 Continuity and New Developments in 15th Century Tibetan Book Production: Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1376–1451) and His Disciples as Producers of Manuscript and Print Editions /; 13 Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation /; 14 Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang /; 15 Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books /; 16 Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan /; 17 An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects /; 18 Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century /; 19 Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs /; 20 Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood /; 21 The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts /; 22 Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study /; 23 The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books /; 24 Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet /; 25 Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004316256
• ISSN: 1568-6183
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard and Peter Kornicki.

In Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology that takes materials, living traditions and cross-cultural comparisons into consideration. Bringing together leading experts from different disciplines, it discusses the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context of Asian book cultures with an eye to the questions raised by the study of the European history of printing. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Alessandro Boesi, Peter Burke, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger, Dorje Gyeltsen, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Helmut Eimer, Johan Elverskog, Camillo Formigatti, Imre Galambos, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Tomasz Wazny, Sherab Sangpo Kawa, Peter Kornicki, Leonard van der Kuijp, Stefan Larsson, Ben Nourse, Anuradha Pallipurath, Porong Dawa, Paola Ricciardi, Tsering Dawa Sharshon, Sam van Schaik, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Marta Sernesi, Pasang Wangdu.