LEADER 03835nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910790103503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-59960-X 010 $a9786613629449 010 $a0-231-51918-4 024 7 $a10.7312/scha14716 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187462 035 $a(EBL)908667 035 $a(OCoLC)829462160 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11411734 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666349 035 $a(PQKB)11054258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908667 035 $a(DE-B1597)459299 035 $a(OCoLC)784377447 035 $a(OCoLC)979620237 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231519182 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908667 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533362 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362944 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187462 100 $a20080826d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe culture of the book in Tibet$b[electronic resource] /$fKurtis R. Schaeffer 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14716-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-240) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Stuff of Books -- $t2. The Editor's Texts -- $t3. The Scholar's Dream -- $t4. The Physician's Lament -- $t5. The King's Canons -- $t6. The Cost of a Priceless Book -- $tEpilogue: The Boy Who Wrote S?tras on the Sky -- $tAppendix 1. Büton Rinchendrup's Letter to Editors -- $tAppendix 2. The Contents of the Buddhist Canons -- $tAppendix 3. The Cost of the Canon at Degé -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aThe history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society.Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced 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. Books stood at the center of debates on the role of libraries in religious institutions, the relative merits of oral and written teachings, and the economy of religion in Tibet.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. Through a single object, Schaeffer accesses a greater understanding of the Tibetan plateau. 606 $aBuddhist literature, Tibetan$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBuddhism and culture 607 $aTibet Autonomous Region (China)$xCivilization 615 0$aBuddhist literature, Tibetan$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBuddhism and culture. 676 $a002.0951/5 700 $aSchaeffer$b Kurtis R$0783512 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790103503321 996 $aThe culture of the book in Tibet$93697692 997 $aUNINA