Bon and Naxi Manuscripts

by Charles Ramble and Agnieszka Helman-Wany

The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space. While some of the contributions focus on particular features of manuscripts from either tradition, others explicitly bridge the two by considering common codicological and material aspects of selected examples or common themes in the content of the texts. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with the cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110776081
• ISBN13: 9783110776089
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"