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Kurtis (University of Virginia) Schaeffer

The Culture of the Book in Tibet

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Drawing on sources spanning the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens responsible for 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 reli… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-231-14717-0
  • EAN: 9780231147170
  • Produktnummer: 16633627
  • Verlag: Columbia University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.5 cm 426 g
  • Abbildungen: 2 tables
  • Gewicht: 426
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Kurtis R. Schaeffer is a student of the cultural and intellectual history of Tibet. He is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of an Indian Buddhist Poet-Saint.

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