Tibetan Printing ─ Comparison, Continuities, and Change

Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context of Asian book culture.

Hildegard Diemberger, D.Phil. (1992) University of Vienna, is Research Director at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has published monographs, translations and articles on the anthropology and history of Tibet and the Himalaya, includingWhen a Woman becomes a Religious Dynasty : the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet (Columbia University Press 2007).Franz-Karl Ehrhard, D.Phil. (1987) Hamburg University, is Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Munich, Germany. His research work centres on religious and literary traditions in Tibet and the Himalayas. He has published extensively on the history of printing including the book Early Buddhist Block Prints from Mang-yul Gung-thang (Lumbini International Research Institute, 2000).Peter Kornicki, D.Phil. (1979), University of Oxford, is Emeritus Professor of Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published numerous catalogues, monographs and articles.