| ISBN |
900431606X (hardcover) |
| 9789004316065 (hardcover) |
| Title |
Tibetan printing : comparisons, continuities and change / edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard and Peter Kornicki |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 |
| Physical desc. |
xiii, 596 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library 39 |
| Note |
Papers presented at a workshop on "Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond" held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1: The introduction of printing in the Asian context: wider perspectives on print and manuscript cultures. Three print revolutions / Peter Burke -- The Gutenberg fallacy and the history of printing among the Mongols / Johan Elverskog -- Mongolian female rulers as patrons of Tibetan printing at the Yuan court: some preliminary observations on recently discovered materials / Kawa Sherab Sangpo -- Empress Shotoku as a sponsor of printing / Peter Kornicki -- From Chongzhen lishu to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo / Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp -- A forgotten chapter in South Asian book history? a bird's eye view on Sanskrit print culture / Camillo A. Formigatti -- Manuscript and print in the Tangut state: the case of the Sunzi / Imre Galambos -- Printing versus manuscript: history or rhetoric? a short note inspired by Pelliot DIC / Cristina Scherrer-Schaub -- The uses of early Tibetan printing: evidence from the Turfan Oasis / Sam van Schaik -- Part 2: The introduction of printing into Tibet: drivers, impact and new discoveries. New discoveries in early Tibetan printing history / Porong Dawa -- Collected writings as xylographs: two sets from the Bo dong pa school / Franz Karl Ehrhard -- 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 -- Tibetan women as patrons of printing and innovation / Hildegard Diemberger -- Prints about the printer: four early prints in honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang / Stefan Larsson -- Works and networks of mkhas pa Dri med: on the illustrations of 16th-century Tibetan printed books / Marta Sernesi -- Early book production and printing in Bhutan / Dorji Gyaltsen -- An unacknowledged revolution? a reading of Tibetan printing history on the basis of Gung thang colophons studied in two dedicated projects / Michela Clemente -- Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: uses of Tibetan printing in the eighteenth century / Benjamin J. Nourse -- Observations made in the study of Tibetan xylographs / Helmut Eimer -- Part 3: Exploring the materiality of prints and manuscripts. Wooden book-covers, printing blocks, their identification and dating: how to read the wood / Tomasz Wazny -- The five colours of art: non-invasive analysis of pigments in Tibetan prints and manuscripts / Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath -- Paper plants in the Tibetan world: a preliminary study / Alessandro Boesi -- The choice of materials in early Tibetan printed books / Agnieszka Helman-Wazny -- Paper, patronage and production of books: remarks on an 11th-century manuscript from Central Tibet / Pasang Wangdu -- Pattern reproduction possibilities and the alpha and omega of Tibetan printing / T. H. Barrett. |
| Subject |
Printing -- Tibet Region -- History -- Congresses |
| Books -- Tibet Region -- History -- Congresses |
| Bookbinding -- Tibet Region -- History -- Congresses |
| Book design -- Tibet Region -- History -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Diemberger, Hildegard editor |
| Ehrhard, Franz-Karl editor |
| Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis) editor |
