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024 7 _a10.7312/scha14716
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780231519182
035 _a(DE-B1597)459299
035 _a(OCoLC)784377447
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSchaeffer, Kurtis
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Culture of the Book in Tibet /
_cKurtis Schaeffer.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.) :
_b2 tables
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_t1. The Stuff of Books --
_t2. The Editor's Texts --
_t3. The Scholar's Dream --
_t4. The Physician's Lament --
_t5. The King's Canons --
_t6. The Cost of a Priceless Book --
_tEpilogue: The Boy Who Wrote Sūtras on the Sky --
_tAppendix 1. Büton Rinchendrup's Letter to Editors --
_tAppendix 2. The Contents of the Buddhist Canons --
_tAppendix 3. The Cost of the Canon at Degé --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced Tibet's massive canons. He describes how Tibetan scholars edited and printed works of religion, literature, art, and science and what this indicates about the interrelation of material and cultural practices. The Tibetan book is at once the embodiment of the Buddha's voice, a principal means of education, a source of tradition and authority, an economic product, a finely crafted aesthetic object, a medium of Buddhist written culture, and a symbol of the religion itself. Books stood at the center of debates on the role of libraries in religious institutions, the relative merits of oral and written teachings, and the economy of religion in Tibet.A meticulous study that draws on more than 150 understudied Tibetan sources, The Culture of the Book in Tibet is the first volume to trace this singular history. Through a single object, Schaeffer accesses a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aBuddhism and culture.
650 0 _aBuddhist literature, Tibetan
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / Central Asia.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/scha14716
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231519182
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