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The article brings into focus the structure and typology of the colophons in the Mongolian translations of texts whose authorship is ascribed to the Buddha himself. Such texts were repeatedly translated into the Mongolian language and highly venerated by believers. As old as Mongolian literature itself, colophons or "concluding words" accompanied the nation's literary canon over a period running from the late thirteenth to the early twentieth century. They are the blocks of textual information that the creator of a text or book, be it a translator, a scribe, or a publisher, regarded as being an important addition to the main text. Despite the diversity of such informative blocks, which include praying formulas, panegyrics, benedictions, cosmological, historical, and quasi-historical accounts, didactic fragments, and so on, the colophons followed a settled template and established quite fixed information and expression spheres, i.e., they only narrate about certain things and use a certain language. This inflexibility of the colophons is explained by their main function-they represent a certain type of paratext forming part of the complex mediation between the book and the reader aimed at ensuring the reception of the translated text as an authoritative and legitimate source of Buddhist wisdom.
The Synatax of Colophons. A Comparative Study Across Pothi Manuscripts, edited by Nalini Balbir and Giovanni Ciotti
The Grammar and Function of Colophons in Lao Manuscripts: The Case of the Vat Maha That Collection, Luang Prabang2022 •
This article discusses the structure, grammar, and function of colophons in Lao palm-leaf manuscripts containing Buddhist texts. The manuscripts which form the corpus of this study have been selected from the monastic repository of Vat Maha That, one of the largest monasteries in the old royal capital of Luang Prabang. The colophons are almost exclusively written in the Lao vernacular with rather short, standardized Pali phrases at the end. The main emphasis is on the role of scribes and of sponsors in the making of manuscripts. The vast majority of Lao manuscripts are elaborately dated according to the Lao lunar calendar. In the case of manuscripts from Luang Prabang the relatively high number of female sponsors and the presence of royalty among principal lay initiators is a most striking feature.
Studies in Central and East Asian Religions [Copenhagen]. Vol. 2, pp. 1–18
More on the Old dGa’-ldan and Gong-dkar-ba Xylographic Editions.pdf1989 •
This paper investigates old dGa’-ldan and Gong-dkar-ba xylographic editions that date to the 15th century. The Gong dkar ba edition was the earliest block-print edition of Sa skya pa writings in Central Tibet, and it was sponsored by Gong dkar rDo rje gdan pa Kun dga' rnam rgyal when he was still a young lay noble called Grwa lnga rgyal po.
East Asian Publishing and Society
Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction, written by Shi Jinbo and translated by Li Hansong2021 •
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