The Culture of the Book in Tibet by Schaeffer, Kurtis

New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G+ Hardcover w/ dustjacket; Brown spine with Tan text; Dustjacket has slight edgewear, slight shelfwear, wrinkling at corners of both covers; Boards strong, slight edgewear, slight shelfwear; Textblock has underlining and writing in pencil on many pages, otherwise clean; 243 pp. 1332236. FP New Rockville Stock.

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New. Bookstore new w/ minor wear.

New. The history of the book in Tibet involves more than literary trends and trade routes. Functioning as material, intellectual, and symbolic object, the book has been an instrumental tool in the construction of Tibetan power and authority, and its history opens a crucial window onto the cultural, intellectual, and economic life of an immensely influential Buddhist society. Spanning the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Kurtis R. Schaeffer envisions the scholars and hermits, madmen and ministers, kings and queens who produced 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 religion… Read More

Columbia Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.10x0.90 inches.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.10x0.90 inches.