An Early West Tibetan Manuscript from Hanle Monastery, Ladakh

West Tibetan manuscripts have constituted the focus of research at the University of Vienna since the late 1980s. Within the context of a series of research projects (latterly Vienna Universityʹs ʺTibetan Manuscriptsʺ project, financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), a sub-project of the Nationa...

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Published inInteraction in the Himalayas and Central Asia p. 147
Main Author EVA ALLINGER
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 07.04.2017
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Summary:West Tibetan manuscripts have constituted the focus of research at the University of Vienna since the late 1980s. Within the context of a series of research projects (latterly Vienna Universityʹs ʺTibetan Manuscriptsʺ project, financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), a sub-project of the National Research Unit ʺCultural History of the Western Himalayaʺ) the manuscript collection at Tabo was presented (Steinkellner 1994), then subsequently organised and documented by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub and Paul Harrison (Scherrer-Schaub and Steinkellner 1999, Harrison 2009). Since this collection contains only fragments rather than complete texts, Harrison surmises that ʺthe Tabo collection may have come from other
ISBN:9783700180739
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