The Culture of the Book in Tibet

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  • Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer
  • Release Date : 2009
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 259
  • ISBN 13 : 0231147163
  • File Size : 79,79 MB

The Culture of the Book in Tibet by Kurtis R. Schaeffer PDF Summary

Book Description: Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for 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. 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, allowing for a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau.

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