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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779896503321

Titolo

Tibetan inscriptions : proceedings of a panel held at the Twelfth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010 / / editors, Kurt Tropper, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25241-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Brill's Tibetan studies library, , 1568-6183 ; ; v. 32

Altri autori (Persone)

TropperKurt

Scherrer-SchaubCristina Anna

Disciplina

929/.5

Soggetti

Inscriptions, Tibetan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tsha tsha inscriptions: a preliminary survey / Kunsang Namgyal Lama (Paris) -- The Buddha-vita in the White Temple of Tsaparang / Kurt Tropper (Vienna) -- Misbehaviour and  punishment in a paper inscription at Zha lu monastery: a preliminary report / Benjamin Wood (Victoria) --   -- Classifying, questioning and interpreting Tibetan inscriptions / Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Lausanne/Paris/Vienna) -- A new interpretation of the mythological incipit of the Rkong po inscription / Nathan W. Hill (London).

Sommario/riassunto

Inscriptions are a rather neglected field within Tibetan Studies, because they are often located in places that are not easily accessible for both geographical and political reasons. It is thus especially welcome that two of the contributions to this volume deal with inscriptions documented on recent field trips to Tibet: Benjamin Wood discusses an inscription in Zha lu that relates an enigmatic conflict in the history of the monastery, and Kurt Tropper looks into an epigraphic cycle on the life of the Buddha in Tsaparang. Moreover, Nathan Hill provides a new interpretation of the beginning of the famous Rkong po inscription, and Kunsang Namgyal Lama surveys the various kinds of texts found on tsha tsha s. An extra level of reflection is added to the volume by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub’s methodological considerations on the classification and interpretation of inscriptions.