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[Review:] A. Helman-Ważny. The Archaeology of Tibetan Books. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2014. — 311 p. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library. Ed. by H. Blezer, A. McKay, Ch. Ramble. Vol. 36, by Alexander V. Zorin // Written Monuments of the Orient. 1(3), 2016. P. 115–117.
This monograph by Dr. Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, the leading expert on the
history of Tibetan paper, sums up the results of her long and successful research into
various types of Tibetan books held in museums and libraries around the world, such
as the British Library (London), the Berlin State Library, the Jagiellonian University
Library (Krakow), the Library of Congress (Washington) and the Library of Tibetan
Works and Archives (Dharamsala). Some Tibetan texts kept at the Institute of
Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg) have also been examined by Helman-Ważny.
Her research is primarily concerned with the material aspects of Tibetan books:
papermaking plants, tools and technology, types of ink, formats of books, conservational issues, and so on...
To WMO, 1(3), 2016...
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