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Tibetan Inscriptions (S 9804)
| Project Leader: | Dr. K. Tropper |
| Members: | Univ.-Prof. Dr. C. Scherrer-Schaub; J. Schörflinger, BA |
The project aims to trace, document and study Tibetan inscriptions from Western Tibet. Philological research will be carried out on selected samples of both historical and religious inscriptions. The examination of these sources promises to provide new information on the historical conditions and developments of Western Tibet on a local level and will contribute to the identification and interpretation of the murals, statues and iconographic concepts of the respective temples. In addition, inscriptions rendering passages from canonical texts promise to expand our knowledge of the West-Tibetan transmission of the Kanjur and Tanjur. Lastly, the examination of these epigraphic documents will add to the growing number of studies on the palaeography and orthography of early Tibetan handwritten documents, be they inscriptions or manuscripts in codex form.