Bon and Naxi Manuscripts 1st Edition by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble ISBN 3110776081 978-3110776089

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ISBN 10:  3110776081 

ISBN 13: 978-3110776089

Author: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble 

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 history and technology of books from the two traditions. It discusses collections of Bon and Naxi manuscripts, the concepts and history of both traditions, the science and technology of book studies as it relates to these collections, the relationship between text and image, writing materials, and the historical and archaeological context of the manuscripts’ places of origin. The authors are specialists in different fields including philology, anthropology, art history, codicology and archaeometry. The contributions shed light on trade routes, materials and technologies as well as on reading practices and ritual usage of Bon and Naxi manuscripts.

Table of contents: 

1. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Ramble: Introduction

2. Sam van Schaik: A Tibetan Book of Spells

3. J.F. Marc des Jardins: Magical Recipes from the Grimoire of a Tibetan Bonpo Priest

4. Charles Ramble: Notes on a Bonpo Manual for the Production of Manuscript Amulets

5. And Martin: Earth and Wind, Water and Fire: Book Binding and Preservation in Pre-Mongol Bon Ritual Manuals for Consecrations

6. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Ramble: Preliminary Remarks on the Drangsong Collection of Bon Manuscripts in Mustang, Nepal

7. Amy Heller: Preliminary Remarks on Bonpo Manuscripts in Dolpo

8. Henk Bleger: Towards a Definition of Local Orthographies of Bon Manuscripts: A Pilot Study

9. Daniel Berounsky: An Old Tibetan Myth on Retribution for Killing the Nyen (Gnyan stong): Manuscripts Scattered between Naxi, Tanguts, Eastern and Western Tibet

10. Bazhen Zeren: A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the Bonpo Klu ‘bum and its Canonical Transformation

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