03772nam 22005655 450 991101130960332120260103003852.09783111569550311156955110.1515/9783111569550(CKB)36952442400041(DE-B1597)695938(DE-B1597)9783111569550(MiAaPQ)EBC31893458(Au-PeEL)EBL31893458(OCoLC)1479751553(EXLCZ)993695244240004120241216h20242025 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProducing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet The ‘Sutra of Limitless Life’ and its Dunhuang Copies Kept at the British Library /Lewis Doney, Brandon Dotson1st ed.Berlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2024]20251 online resource (XII, 408 p.)Studies in Manuscript Cultures ,2365-9696 ;439783111569307 3111569306 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --Conventions --Introduction --Part One: The Sutra Copies, their Production, and Conservation --Introduction --1 Conserving Limitless Life --2 Transmitting Limitless Life --3 Producing Limitless Life --Conclusions to Part One --Part Two: The Sutra Copies and our Documentation --Introduction --4 Documenting Limitless Life --5 Correcting Limitless Life --Appendix One: Transliterations of Sample Copies of the Tibetan A1 and C5 Versions of the Sutra of Limitless Life --Appendix Two: Concordance of Tibetan Limitless Life Copies by Pressmarks --List of Figures --Abbreviations --References --IndexThe result of the authors’ painstaking documentation of over 1,500 Tibetan copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life from Dunhuang, now kept in the British Library’s Stein Collection, this book provides a detailed study of the sutra copies, how they were produced for the Tibetan emperor in ninth-century Dunhuang, and how they were conserved in twentieth-century England. It explores the lives of Dunhuang’s multi-ethnic scribes, editors, and administrators and reveals how their practices changed in a short period of time during the 820s. In addition, the book surveys the significant differences across the multiple Tibetan and Chinese versions of the Sutra of Limitless Life (Tib. Tshe dpag du myed pa’i mdo; Ch. Wuliangshou zongyao jing; Skt. Aparimitāyuḥ sūtra) circulating in Dunhuang at this time, and introduces a previously unknown Tibetan version. Through working with such a large cross section of the Stein Collection, and by coming to terms with one of the single largest groups of Dunhuang manuscripts, the book provides new insights into how these manuscripts were documented and conserved, on their way from Dunhuang through Khotan to London and at the British Museum, India Office Library, and British Library.Studies in Manuscript Cultures SeriesLITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisacshChina.Tibet.buddhism.manuscript studies.social history.LITERARY CRITICISM / General.Dotson Brandonauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1492485Doney Lewisauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autUniversität Hamburg,fndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911011309603321Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet4309615UNINA