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Manuscripts and travellers [electronic resource] : the Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim / by Sam van Schaik, Imre Galambos.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in manuscript cultures ; 2.Publication details: Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.Description: 247 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN:
  • 9783110225648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9783110225655 (e-book)
Other title:
  • Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.3/43510951509021 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ6450.C6 V36 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Cultural contexts and historical connections -- The Dunhuang manuscripts -- Buddhist pilgrimage to the West in the tenth century -- Tibetans of the borderlands -- Part II. The manuscript -- The structure of the manuscript -- From the Gantong Monastery -- The Baoenjing -- The Tibetan tantric texts -- The letters of passage -- Conclusions.
Item type: eBooks
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I. Cultural contexts and historical connections -- The Dunhuang manuscripts -- Buddhist pilgrimage to the West in the tenth century -- Tibetans of the borderlands -- Part II. The manuscript -- The structure of the manuscript -- From the Gantong Monastery -- The Baoenjing -- The Tibetan tantric texts -- The letters of passage -- Conclusions.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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