Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 311 pages)
ISBN:
9789004275058
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library v. 36
Content:
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 2 Methods: An Uneasy Alliance of Science and History /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 3 Tibetan Books: A Craft and Artistry /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 4 Indigo, Gold, and Human Blood: Tibetan Illuminated Manuscripts /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 5 Tibetan Woodblock Printing Culture /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 6 A Survey of Tibetan Paper /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- 7 Conservation /Given-Name Helman-Ważny -- Appendix 1 Selected Items from the Tibetan Collections of the British Library -- Appendix 2 Features of Paper in Selected Sets of Tibetan Kanjur -- Appendix 3 Transcription of the Yongle Covers Inscriptions -- Appendix 4 Selected Items from the Tibetan Collection of the Berlin State Library -- Appendix 5 Selected Items from the Tibetan Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington dc, the Asian Reading Room -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
In Archaeology of Tibetan Books , Agnieszka Helman-Ważny explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have shaped Tibetan books over the millennia. Digging into the history of the bookmaking craft, the author approaches these ancient texts primarily through the lens of their artistry, while simultaneously showing them as physical objects embedded in pragmatic, economic, and social frameworks. She provides analyses of several significant Tibetan books—which usually carry Buddhist teachings—including a selection of manuscripts from Dunhuang from the 1st millennium C.E., examples of illuminated manuscripts from Western and Central Tibet dating from the 15th century, and fragments of printed Tibetan Kanjurs from as early as 1410. This detailed study of bookmaking sheds new light on the books' philosophical meanings
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004275041
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka, 1974 - The archaeology of Tibetan books Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2014 ISBN 9789004275041
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004275045
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Tibet
;
Buchgestaltung
;
Electronic books
Author information:
Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka 1974-
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