Emmanuel Francis. 2018. ‘Indian Copper-Plate Grants: Inscriptions or Documents?’ In Alessandro Bausi, Christian Brockmann, Michael Friedrich, Sabine Kienitz (eds.) Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 11. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 387–417. ISBN: 9783110541397. DOI: 10.1515/9783110541397-014 [chapter]. [PDF 🔓]
Furger (2017), The Gilded Buddha
Alex R. Furger. 2017. The gilded Buddha: The traditional art of the Newar metal casters in Nepal, with a contribution by Ratna Jyoti Shakya. Basel/Frankfurt a. M.: LIBRUM Publishers & Editors. ISBN: 978-3-906897-06-6. DOI:10.19218/3906897066. [official] [PDF 🔓]
Note: This extraordinary book covers almost every conceivable aspect of metalworked image production in the Newar Buddhist community.
Cubelic et al (2018), Historical Documents from Nepal and India
Simon Cubelic, Axel Michaels, Astrid Zotter (eds). 2018. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India. Documenta Nepalica – Book Series 1. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. ISBN 978-3-946054-70-2 (PDF), 978-3-946054-71-9. 535 pp. (Hardcover) DOI:10.17885/heiup.331.454 [PDF 🔓]
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Hua (2016), Buddhist Printing in China under Mongol Rule
Hua, Kaiqi. 2016. The White Cloud Movement: Local Activism and Buddhist Printing in China under Mongol Rule (1276-1368 CE). PhD diss., University of California, Merced. 379 pp. [official repo: escholarship.org/uc/item/2w7452q0] [PDF] [author: academia.edu]
From the Abstract: This dissertation studies the White Cloud movement in Song- and Yuan-era Jiangnan. […] The movement was mostly led by local laymen rather than monks. Its wealth and reputation peaked with the production of a Buddhist canon during the reign of Khubilai Khan (1276-1294), who provided direct patronage. […] Continue reading “Hua (2016), Buddhist Printing in China under Mongol Rule”
Vergiani et al (2017), Indic MS Cultures
Vincenzo Vergiani et al, eds. December 2017. Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages. Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 14. ISBN 978-3-11-054310-0. doi:10.1515/9783110543100 [PDFs 🔓]
Davidson (2017), Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches
Ronald M. Davidson. 2017. ‘Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices’. Religions (Special issue: Society for Tantric Studies 2016 Proceedings, eds. Glen A. Hayes & Sthaneshwar Timalsina), 8(9), 188 [33 pp.]. doi:10.3390/rel8090188 [PDF 🔓]