The Mardzong manuscripts : : codicological and historical studies of an archaeological find in Mustang, Nepal / / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble ; with contributions by Nyima Drandul Gurung [and four others].

• Superior document: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; Volume 48
• VerfasserIn: Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka,; Ramble, Charles,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ramble, Charles,; Drandul Gurung, Nyima,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 pages).

"In 2008, an international team of climbers discovered a large collection of Tibetan manuscripts in a cave complex called Mardzong, in Nepal's remote Mustang district. The following year, the entire cache-over five thousand folios from some sixty different works of the Buddhist and Bön religions, some more than seven centuries old-were removed to the safe keeping of a monastery, where they were later examined by experts from different disciplines. This book is the result of their findings. The authors present what they have been able to discover about the content of these manuscripts, their age, the materials with which they were made, the patrons who commissioned them and the scribes and artists who created them. Contributors include: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble, Nyima Drandul Gurung, Naljor Tsering, Sarah Skumanov, Emilie Arnaud-Nguyen and Bazhen Zeren"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Mustang (Lo) and Its Heritage -- A Note on Interdisciplinary Methods -- The Mardzong Texts in Relation to the Bon Canon -- A Codicological Study of the Mardzong Manuscripts -- Comparative Study of Paper Found at Archaeological Sites in Mustang -- Missing Manuscripts from the Mardzong Cave Repository -- On the Dating and Origin of the Mardzong Manuscripts -- Book-Making Practices in Mustang -- Preservation of the Mardzong Manuscripts Collection -- Translations of Selected Works from the Mardzong Collection -- A Rare Treatise on Toxicology from the Mardzong Collection: Translation and Preliminary Remarks.