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SUMMARY:Inside Out: The Story of a Pair of Wooden Book Covers from Ancient
  Khotan
DTSTART:20191023T120000Z
DTEND:20191023T140000Z
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UID:inside-out-story-pair-wooden-book-covers-ancient-6970@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Guestlecture by Ruixuan Chen (Heidelberg)\n\nThis talk present
 s some preliminary findings of a codicological and historical investigatio
 n of a pair of wooden tablets that used to function as the covers of the m
 ain manuscript of the famous Book of Zambasta. While the book is well know
 n as one of the most important sources for Khotanese Buddhism\, the covers
 \, bearing bilingual inscriptions which are every bit as interesting as th
 e book itself\, have not yet received due attention. This talk approaches 
 this pair of book covers as written artifacts having social lives in their
  own right. Drawing parallels from a variety of Buddhist manuscript cultur
 es in the trans-Himalayan regions\, efforts will be made to shed new light
  on their materiality and its relevance to the persistent exchanges of rel
 igious ideas and material cultures across the Pamir mountain ranges throug
 hout the second half of the first millennium.\n\nPicture: © Depositum der
  BERLIN-BRANDENBURGISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN in der STAATSBIBLIOT
 HEK ZU BERLIN - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Orientabteilung
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://buddhistroad.ceres.rub.de/zh/events_zh/inside-out-story-pair-w
 ooden-book-covers-ancient/
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