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Book Reviews: Asia. From mulberry leaves to silk scrolls: New approaches to the study of Asian manuscript traditions

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2017, Vol.48 (2), p.304 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2017 ;ISSN: 0022-4634 ;EISSN: 1474-0680 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0022463417000315

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    Book Reviews: Asia. From mulberry leaves to silk scrolls: New approaches to the study of Asian manuscript traditions
  • Author: Hartmann, Jens-Uwe
  • Subjects: Ancient languages ; Buddhism ; Genre ; Museums ; Religion ; Studies ; Traditions
  • Is Part Of: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2017, Vol.48 (2), p.304
  • Description: Alexandra Green's 'Representations of space and place in a Burmese cosmology manuscript at the British Museum' (pp. 42-69), focuses on a single unpublished manuscript and examines the text, its wonderful illustrations and their relation to other representations of the same topics, e.g., in monastic murals, that exemplify Buddhist ideas of the world expressed in a Burmese environment. Remapping early Chinese religion in light of recently excavated manuscripts' (pp. 131-50) looks at two newly discovered bamboo-strip manuscripts from the Warring States period (453-211 BCE) now in the possession of the Shanghai Museum. In her richly illustrated contribution 'Creating a codicology of Central Asian manuscripts' (pp. 207-30), Susan Whitfield presents an overview of the manifold manuscript traditions that developed in the first millennium along the ancient Silk Road in the Tarim basin and then focuses on the materiality of these manuscripts. [...]Peter M. Scharf introduces the Sanskrit Library in his paper 'Providing access to manuscripts in the digital age' (pp. 231-71). The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, and most of them, although dealing in one way or another with manuscripts, also reveal much about their cultural settings, especially about the religious ideas and social beliefs expressed in the texts. [...]the...
  • Publisher: Singapore: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0022-4634
    EISSN: 1474-0680
    DOI: 10.1017/S0022463417000315
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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