The book under review, published in memory of the Tibetan scholar Yonten Gyatso (mDo smad pa Yon tan rgya mtsho, 1932–2002), commences with a preface (pp. 9–11) and brief report on his life and works (pp. 13–17). The body of the book contains twenty contributions devoted to various aspects of textual traditions within the Tibetan cultural sphere over different periods, mainly focusing on (a) traditional textual scholarship—including translation practices, textual criticism, editorial practices, literary criticism, and issues relating to transmission—and (b) the culture of the book—including the practicalities of compilation, the production of both manuscripts and xylographs, and in general anything that has to do with codicology—while also touching upon related areas, such as epigraphy (from a paleographical point of view) and political and economic aspects of the culture of the book. The volume contains papers presented during a conference of the same title that took place in Paris in...
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November 01 2013
Edition, éditions: l'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir
Edition, éditions: l'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir
. [The process of editing and the editions/edited texts: the problematic of the written in Tibet, evolution/history and transformation/change]. Edited by Anne Chayet, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Françoise Robin, and Jean-Luc Achard. Collectanea Himalayica 3. Munich
: Indus Verlag
, 2010
. 482 pp. €59.00 (cloth).
Orna Almogi
Orna Almogi
University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 992–993.
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Orna Almogi; Edition, éditions: l'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir. Journal of Asian Studies 1 November 2013; 72 (4): 992–993. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001344
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