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082			_a294.382 _bBER/B
245		0	_aBuddhist manuscript culture: Knowledge, ritual & art/ _cBerkwitz, S.C.
260			_aLondon: _bRowman & Littlefield, _c2009.
300			_a211 p.
505			_a1 .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
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