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].

"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 re...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library ; Volume 48
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Volume 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages).
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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.