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Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet

The ‘Sutra of Limitless Life’ and its Dunhuang Copies Kept at the British Library

dc.contributor.authorDoney, Lewis
dc.contributor.authorDotson, Brandon
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-19T04:13:08Z
dc.date.available2025-02-19T04:13:08Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.submitted2025-02-18T11:08:22Z
dc.identifierONIX_20250218_9783111569550_66
dc.identifier2365-9696
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98800
dc.identifier.urihttps://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/151476
dc.description.abstractIn Dunhuang in the 820s, scribes, editors, and administrators produced thousands of Tibetan and Chinese copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life. Drawing on the 1,500 such Tibetan copies now kept at the British Library, this study explores the people and practices that created these manuscripts, surveys the various Tibetan and Chinese versions of the sutra, and documents how they were employed, stored, conserved, and catalogued up to the present.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudies in Manuscript Cultures
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherTibet
dc.subject.otherChina
dc.subject.otherbuddhism
dc.subject.othermanuscript studies
dc.subject.othersocial history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China::1FPCT Tibet
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500::3KH c 500 to c 1000 CE::3KHW 9th century, c 800 to c 899
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLP Archiving, preservation and digitization
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRF Buddhism::QRFF Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings
dc.titleProducing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet
dc.title.alternativeThe ‘Sutra of Limitless Life’ and its Dunhuang Copies Kept at the British Library
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9783111569550
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oapen.relation.isFundedByde540480-36aa-4940-8611-db2e1b2c5e64
oapen.relation.isFundedBy775581ca-5959-4eee-a320-2e23d0d8feaa
oapen.relation.isbn9783111569550
oapen.relation.isbn9783111569307
oapen.relation.isbn9783111570099
oapen.imprintDe Gruyter
oapen.pages408
oapen.place.publicationBerlin/Boston
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dc.relationisFundedBy775581ca-5959-4eee-a320-2e23d0d8feaa
dc.seriesnumber43


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