Author(s): Helman-Wazny A., Ramble C. (Ed.)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 28
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 425
City: Berlin
Contents
Introduction
A Tibetan Book of Spells
Magical Recipes from the Grimoire of a Tibetan Bonpo Priest
Notes on a Bonpo Manual for the Production of Manuscript Amulets
Earth and Wind, Water and Fire: Book Binding and Preservation in pre-Mongol Bon Ritual Manuals for Consecrations
Preliminary Remarks on the Drangsong Collection of Bon Manuscripts in Mustang, Nepal
Preliminary Remarks on Bonpo Manuscripts in Dolpo
Towards a Definition of Local Orthographies of Bon Manuscripts: A Pilot Study
An Old Tibetan Myth on Retribution for Killing the Nyen (Gnyan stong): Manuscripts Scattered between Naxi, Tanguts, Eastern and Western Tibet
A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the Bonpo Klu ’bum and its Canonical Transformation
The Lungyig Texts of the Leu Scriptures from the Phenchu Area, in Amdo
Lost in Translation? A Brief History of the Study of Dongba Manuscripts from its Beginnings to 1945
A ‘Key’ to the Dongba Script? A Re-Appraisal of a Set of Four Dongba Manuscripts, Held by the John Rylands Library
Paper in Dongba Manuscripts from the Weltmuseum in Vienna
Indexes
