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001 2008026919
003 DLC
005 20100217092312.0
008 080619s2008 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008026919
020 $a9780415776165 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9780203884812 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $aa------
050 00 $aBQ1113$b.B83 2008
082 00 $a294.3/82$222
245 00 $aBuddhist manuscript cultures :$bknowledge, ritual, and art /$cedited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown.
260 $aAbingdon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2008.
263 $a0812
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aRoutledge critical studies in Buddhism ;$v52
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures / Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown -- Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts? / Richard Salomon -- Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- Redaction, recitation, and writing : transmission of the Buddha's teachings in India in the early period / Peter Skilling -- Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence / Vesna A. Wallace -- From words to books : Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE. / Jens-Uwe Hartmann -- Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu : Chan letters in their manuscript context / Natasha Heller - Two Buddhist librarians : the proximate mechanisms for Northern Thai Buddhist history / Justin McDaniel -- Emending perfection. prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture / Christoph Emmrich -- Flowers for the dhamma : painted Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript covers from Sri Lanka / Bilinda Devage Nandadeva -- From text to image : copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth-century Sukhothai / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati.
650 0 $aBuddhism$xSacred books$xHistory.
630 00 $aTripiṭaka$xManuscripts$xHistory.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aBuddhist civilization.
700 1 $aBerkwitz, Stephen C.,$d1969-
700 1 $aSchober, Juliane.
700 1 $aBrown, Claudia,$d1950-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026919.html