Catalogue of the Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the Stein Collection

Title
  • Catalogue of the Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the Stein Collection
AuthorDalton, Jacob P.; van Schaik, Sam J.
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LanguagesEnglish; Tibetan; Sanskrit; Chinese;
Editorial Practice
  • Encoding format: TEI XML (P4 plus MS description)
OTA keywordsAncient religious texts
LC keywordsTantric Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism--Sacred books
Tibet (China)--Civilization
Manuscripts--Catalogs
Extent
  • designation: CollectionText
  • size: 3 files : ca. 1.56 MB
Creation Date2005
Source Description :
Notes
  • Mode of access: Online. AHDS website
  • Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form
  • A descriptive catalogue of the tantric Buddhist material found in the Stein collection of Tibetan manuscripts at the British Library. These are the earliest extant Tibetan manuscripts, and therefore the earliest sources relating to Tibetan tantric Buddhism.
  • Dalton, Jacob. A Crisis of Doxography: How Tibetans Organized Tantra during the 8th-10th Centuries, in Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (under consideration).
  • van Schaik, Sam. The Tibetan Avalokitesvara Cult in the Tenth Century: Evidence from the Dunhuang Manuscripts. In Studies in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Literature, ed. Christian Wedermeyer and Ronald M. Davidson. Leiden: EJ Brill, 2005 [forthcoming].
  • The catalogue appears as part of the IDP website: http://www.idp.bl.uk