The Culture of the Book in Tibet

Kurtis R. Schaeffer

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June, 2009
Cloth, 264 pages, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14716-3
$45.00 / £31.00

Preface

1. The Stuff of Books

2. The Editor's Texts

3. The Scholar's Dream

4. The Physician's Lament

5. The King's Canons

6. The Cost of a Priceless Book

Epilogue: The Boy Who Wrote Sūtras on the Sky

Appendix 1. Büton Rinchendrup's Letter to Editors

Appendix 2. The Contents of the Buddhist Canons

Appendix 3. The Cost of the Canon at Degé

Notes

References

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Religion
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Kurtis R. Schaeffer is a student of the cultural and intellectual history of Tibet. He is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of an Indian Buddhist Poet-Saint.

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