Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change

Diemberger, Hildegard; Ehrhard, Karl; Kornicki, Peter

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“…Xylographic printing was not widely adopted in Tibet until the fifteenth century, "becoming an important technology for the multiplication of texts and images, alongside manuscript production, and remaining so until the 20th century." 30 Both before the spread of xylography and alongside its growth, manuscript production of pothi-style volumes in Tibet continued to be plentiful. The major distinction that I seek to draw in this paper is between an original manuscript letter that is composed for its first audience, with its capacious size and intricate stylistic details, and an edited letter that has been transformed and compressed, both textually and materially.…”

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Printing Tibetan Epistolaria: A Bibliographical Analysis of Epistolary Transformations from Manuscript to Xylograph

Kilby¹

2020

JES

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In Tibetan tradition, letter writing is a sophisticated art in which the material aspects of a letter––paper format, script style and size, text spacing and layout––are integral to the letter's semantic content. What meaning is lost and gained in the transformation from manuscript original to printed edition? What scribal and editorial decisions are at play in this textual transformation? My aims in this article are twofold: to introduce scholars of global epistolary literatures to the Tibetan epistolary tradition, and to examine the ways in which editing and printing epistolaria can thoroughly transform letters’ materiality and meaning. This study not only contributes a bibliographical analysis of printed Tibetan epistolaria, but also offers a model for investigating how woodblock printing or other printing technologies can change the way epistolary texts both look and function.

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Printing Tibetan Epistolaria: A Bibliographical Analysis of Epistolary Transformations from Manuscript to Xylograph

Kilby¹

2020

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Surrounding the Sacred Space: Two Painted Scrolls from the Collection of Namgyal Monastery in Mustang, Nepal

Bellini

2020

JRAS

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The Collection of Namgyal Monastery (Mustang, Nepal) preserves two long and narrow scrolls painted on both sides, of exquisite artistic quality. This article describes and investigates the iconographic and symbolic meaning of the paintings and the use of these objects. One of the scrolls shows the Eight Auspicious Symbols and deities that personify diverse group of offerings painted in an elegant Newari style. The other scroll features an intriguing representation of the Eight Charnel Grounds in a continuous landscape. Full of delicate and charming details, it illustrates the Mahasiddhas, Guardians, Nāgas and stupa of the respective directions. The back of both scrolls has a vajra chain at the bottom and flames represented above it. The scrolls must have been used to encircle specific mandalas. Such objects are rather rare, and it is interesting to reflect on their former use, even more so as no contemporaneous objects of that type are known. The stylistic features of the paintings reveal the broader relationships of the Mustang region to neighbouring areas. Relationships can also be established to objects preserved in the same collection, such as a collection of metal stupa of similar design and typical for the Mustang region and the western Himalayas.

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Bowing with Words: Paper, Ink, and Bodies in Tibetan Buddhist Epistles

Kilby

2019

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Printing Tibetan Epistolaria: A Bibliographical Analysis of Epistolary Transformations from Manuscript to Xylograph

Printing Tibetan Epistolaria: A Bibliographical Analysis of Epistolary Transformations from Manuscript to Xylograph

Surrounding the Sacred Space: Two Painted Scrolls from the Collection of Namgyal Monastery in Mustang, Nepal

Bowing with Words: Paper, Ink, and Bodies in Tibetan Buddhist Epistles

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