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Buddhist manuscript culture: Knowledge, ritual & art/ Berkwitz, S.C. - London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. - 211 p.

1 .Introduction: rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures
« S'I'tPHEN C. BERKWITZ. JULIANE SCHOBER. AND CLAUDIA DROVVN
PART I
Ideologies
2 Why did the Gandharan Buddhists bury their manuscripts?
RICHARD SALOMON
3 Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts
STEPHEN C, BERKWITZ
PART II
Production
4 Redaction, recitation, and writing: transmission of the
Buddha's teaching in India in the early period
PETER SKILLING
5 Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript
culture and realms of its influence
VESNA A. WALLACE
6 From words to books; Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the
first millennium CE
JENS-UWE HARTMANN
PART III
Curating
7 Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu; Chan
letters in their manuscript context
NATASHA l-IELLER
8 Two Buddhist librarians: the proximate mechanisms of
Northern Thai Buddhist history
JUSTIN MCDANIEL
9 Emending perfection: prescript, postscript, and practice in
Newar Buddhist manuscript culture
CHRISTOPH EMMRiCH
PART IV
Art and architecture
10 Flowers for the Dhamma: painted Buddhist palm leaf
manuscript covers {kamba) of Sri Lanka
BILINDA DEVAGENANDADEVA
11 From text to image: copying as Buddhist practice m late
fourteenth century Sukhothai
M.L. pattaratorn chirapravati

Dewey Class. No.: 294.382 / BER/B