Tibetan printing : : comparisons, continuities and change / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 39 |
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| 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. |
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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.