List of figures ................................................ xi
Acknowledgements .............................................. xiv
List of contributors .......................................... xvi
1 Introduction: rethinking Buddhist manuscript cultures ........ 1
STEPHEN С. BERKWITZ, JULIANE SCHOBER, AND CLAUDIA BROWN
PART I Ideologies .............................................. 17
2 Why did the Gandhāran Buddhists bury their manuscripts? ..... 19
RICHARD SALOMON
3 Materiality and merit in Sri Lankan Buddhist manuscripts .... 35
STEPHEN С. BERKWITZ
PART II Production ............................................. 51
4 Redaction, recitation, and writing: transmission of the
Buddha's teaching in India in the early period .............. 53
PETER SKILLING
5 Diverse aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist manuscript
culture and realms of its influence ......................... 76
VESNA A. WALLACE
6 From words to books: Indian Buddhist manuscripts in the
first millennium CE ......................................... 95
JENS-UWE HARTMANN
PART III Curating ............................................. 107
7 Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu: Chan letters
in their manuscript context ................................ 109
NATASHA HELLER
8 Two Buddhist librarians: the proximate mechanisms of
Northern Thai Buddhist history ............................. 124
JUSTIN MCDANIEL
9 Emending perfection: prescript, postscript, and practice
in Newar Buddhist manuscript culture ....................... 140
CHRISTOPH EMMRICH
PART IV Art and architecture .................................. 157
10 Flowers for the Dhamma: painted Buddhist palm leaf
manuscript covers (kamba) of Sri Lanka ..................... 159
BILINDA DEVAGE NANDADEVA
11 From text to image: copying as Buddhist practice in late
fourteenth century Sukhothai ............................... 172
M.L. PATTARATORN CHIRAPRAVATI
Bibliography .................................................. 189
Index ......................................................... 206
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