TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berkwitz,Stephen C.
AU  - Schober,Juliane
AU  - Brown,Claudia
TI  - Buddhist manuscript cultures: knowledge, ritual, and art 
T2  - Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
SN  - 9781138744127 (pbk.)
U1  - 294.382 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Tripiṭaka
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - History
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Sacred books
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - Asia
KW  - Buddhist civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008026919.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2008026919-b.html
ER  -