Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations, Tables and Maps x
Introduction 1
PART ONE: The Introduction of Printing in the Asian Context: Wider Perspectives on Print and Manuscript Cultures
1 Three Print Revolutions 13 - Peter Burke
2 The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols 21 - Johan Elverskog
3 Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials 38 -
Kawa Sherab Sangpo
4 Empress Shōtoku as a Sponsor of Printing 45 - Peter Kornicki
5 From Chongzhen lishu 崇楨曆書 to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo 51 - Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
6 A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture 72 - Camillo A. Formigatti
7 Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi 135 - Imre Galambos
8 Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note Inspired by Pelliot DIC 153 - Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
9 The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis 171 - Sam van Schaik
PART 2: The Introduction of Printing Into Tibet: Drivers, Impact and New Discoveries
10 New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History 195 - Porong Dawa
11 Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School 212 - Franz-Karl Ehrhard
12 Continuity and New Developments in 15th Century Tibetan Book Production: Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1376–1451) and His Disciples as Producers of Manuscript and Print Editions 237 - Tsering Dawa Sharshon
13 Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation 267 - Hildegard Diemberger
14 Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang 309 - Stefan Larsson
15 Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books 332 - Marta Sernesi
16 Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan 369 - Dorji Gyaltsen
17 An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects 394 - Michela Clemente
18 Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century 424 - Benjamin J. Nourse
19 Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs 451- Helmut Eimer
PART 3: Exploring the Materiality of Prints and Manuscripts
20 Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood 471 - Tomasz Ważny
21 The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts 485 -Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath
22 Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study 501 - Alessandro Boesi
23 The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books 532 - Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
24 Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet 555 - Pasang Wangdu
25 Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing 560 - T. H. Barrett
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