Tibetan Printing : Comparisons, Continuities and Change

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Introduction The Introduction of Printing in the Asian Context: Wider Perspectives on Print and Manuscript Cultures. Three Print Revolutions / Peter Burke The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols / Johan Elverskog Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials / Kawa Sherab Sangpo Empress Shotoku as a Sponsor of Printing / Peter Kornicki From Chongzhen lishu to Tengri-yin udq-a and rGyartsis chen mo 51 / Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History: A Bird's View on Sanskrit Print Culture / Camillo A. Formigatti Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi / Imre Galambos Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note inspired by Pelliot DIC / Cristina Scherrer-Schaub The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis / Sam van Schaik Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing / T.H. Barrett The Introduction of Printing Into Tibet: Drivers, Impact and New Discoveries. New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History / Porong Dawa Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School / Franz Karl Ehrhard Continuity and New Developments in 15th Century Tibetan Book Production: Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1376-1451) and his disciples as Producers of Manuscript and Print Editions / Tsering Dawa Sharshon Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation / Hildegard Diemberger Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad yogin of gtsang / Stefan Larsson Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med: On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books / Marta Sernesi Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan / Dorji Gyaltsen An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects / Michela Clemente Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin Nourse Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs / Helmut Eimer Exploring the Materiality of Prints and Manuscripts. Wooden Book-Covers, Printing Blocks, their identification and dating: how to read the wood / Tomasz Wazny The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts / Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study / Alessandro Boesi The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books / Agnieszka Helman-Wazny Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet / Pasang Wangdu.