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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Hildegard Diemberger , Franz-Karl Ehrhard and Peter Kornicki -- 1 Three Print Revolutions / Peter Burke -- 2 The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols / Johan Elverskog -- 3 Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials / Kawa Sherab Sangpo -- 4 Empress Shōtoku as a Sponsor of Printing / Peter Kornicki -- 5 From Chongzhen lishu 崇楨曆書 to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo / Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp -- 6 A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture / Camillo A. Formigatti -- 7 Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi / Imre Galambos -- 8 Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note Inspired by Pelliot dic / Cristina Scherrer-Schaub -- 9 The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis / Sam van Schaik -- 10 New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History / Porong Dawa -- 11 Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School / Franz-Karl Ehrhard -- 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 / Tsering Dawa Sharshon -- 13 Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation / Hildegard Diemberger -- 14 Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang / Stefan Larsson -- 15 Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books / Marta Sernesi -- 16 Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan / Dorji Gyaltsen -- 17 An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects / Michela Clemente -- 18 Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin J. Nourse -- 19 Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs / Helmut Eimer -- 20 Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood / Tomasz Ważny -- 21 The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts / Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath -- 22 Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study / Alessandro Boesi -- 23 The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- 24 Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet / Pasang Wangdu -- 25 Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing / T. H. Barrett -- Index.