Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal

Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal
Author: Todd T. Lewis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000-09-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791446119

Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.

The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal

The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal
Author: Mitra Rajendralala
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1882
Genre: Buddha (The concept)
ISBN:

A catalog of the manuscripts presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, preceded by an account of the donor, with lists of his works.

Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts

Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts
Author: Hartmut Buescher
Publisher: Comdc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788776942557

This new catalogue describes the holdings of the so-called Pandit Collection held at the Royal Library, Copenhagen. A diverse collection of more than 1,200 Sanskrit texts, it comprises codices ranging in length from several hundred folios to a single folio, or a manuscript fragment, often produced by educated (or in other cases by less educated) scribes. The Pandit Collection was purchased in Pune (Maharashtra) in the early 1920s from its now-unknown previous owner by the Danish indologist Poul Tuxen. As its name suggests, it is the Sanskrit manuscript collection of a pandit, a traditionally educated Indian scholar, part of it acquired by earlier generations of his brahmanic family. That makes the collection interesting from cultural-historical and anthropological points of view since it documents the wide range of learning, professional tasks and social functions that were covered by Indian scholars active in the last days of their pre-modern educational and scholarly tradition. Designed especially as an essential source of reference for scholars working in all aspects of manuscript studies, the catalogue includes numerous illustrations (many in colour) that help to identify the texts and give a glimpse of the condition, calligraphic styles and decorative elements of the manuscripts.