Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions the Written Word and its Media within the Tibetan Culture Sphere

Contents: The rNying ma rgyud 'bum Set at the National Archives Kathmandu: 1. The History of Its Production and Transmission/Orna Almogi. 2. Different Facets of Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs/Michela Clemente. 3. Early Tibetan Printing in Southern La stod: Remarks on a 1407 Print Produced at Shel dkar/Hildegard Diemberger. 4. Buddhist Hagiographies from the Borderlands: Further Prints from Mang yul Gung thang/Franz-Karl Ehrhard. 5. Overview of Tibetan Paper and Papermaking: History, Raw Materials, Techniques and Fibre Analysis/Agnieszka Helman-Waz.NY. 6. A Collection of Miscellaneous Kanjur Folios including Four Illustrated Pages from a rNying ma Tantra in statu nascendi/Matthew Kapstein. 7. A Collection of Miscellaneous Kanjur Folios including Four Illustrated Pages from a rNying ma Tantra in statu nascendi. 8. The Uses of Implements are Different: Reflections on the Functions of Tibetan Manuscripts/Sam Van Schaik. 9. Some Palaeographic Observations on Tibetan Legal Documents/Peter Schwieger ... 10. Sacred Words, Precious/Dorji Wangchuk.