Buddhist manuscript cultures :  knowledge, ritual, and art / 
edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - xviii, 211 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge critical studies in Buddhism ;  52 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures / Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown -- Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts? / Richard Salomon -- Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- Redaction, recitation, and writing : transmission of the Buddha's teachings in India in the early period / Peter Skilling -- Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript culture and realms of its influence / Vesna A. Wallace -- From words to books : Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the first millennium CE. / Jens-Uwe Hartmann -- Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu : Chan letters in their manuscript context / Natasha Heller - Two Buddhist librarians : the proximate mechanisms for Northern Thai Buddhist history / Justin McDaniel -- Emending perfection. prescript, postscript, and practice in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture / Christoph Emmrich -- Flowers for the dhamma : painted Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript covers from Sri Lanka / Bilinda Devage Nandadeva -- From text to image : copying as Buddhist practice in late fourteenth-century Sukhothai / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138744127 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008026919 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA863562  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014607027  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Tripiṭaka--Manuscripts--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buddhism--Sacred books--History.<br/>Transmission of texts--History.--Asia<br/>Buddhist civilization.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.382  / STE