Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Van Schaik, Sam.

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

Imprint Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 247 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series Studies in manuscript cultures ; 2
Studies in manuscript cultures ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Dunhuang manuscripts.
Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China.
Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Tibet Region.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Daozhao, 10th cent.
Galambos, Imre.
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Sino-Tibetan documents of a tenth-century Buddhist pilgrim
ISBN 9783110225648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9783110225655 (electronic bk.)

 
    
Available items only