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Introduction: Rethinking Buddhist Manuscript Cultures / Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, And Claudia Brown -- Why Did The Gandharan Buddhists Bury Their Manuscripts? / Richard Salomon -- Materiality And Merit In Sri Lankan Buddhist Manuscripts / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- Redaction, Recitation, And Writing: Transmission Of The Buddha's Teachings In India In The Early Period / Peter Skilling -- Diverse Aspects Of The Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript Culture And Realms Of Its Influence / Vesna A. Wallace -- From Words To Books: Indian Buddhist Manuscripts In The First Millennium Ce. / Jens-uwe Hartmann -- Between Zhongfeng Mingben And Zhao Mengfu: Chan Letters In Their Manuscript Context / Natasha Heller - Two Buddhist Librarians: The Proximate Mechanisms For Northern Thai Buddhist History / Justin Mcdaniel -- Emending Perfection. Prescript, Postscript, And Practice In Newar Buddhist Manuscript Culture / Christoph Emmrich -- Flowers For The Dhamma: Painted Buddhist Palm-leaf Manuscript Covers From Sri Lanka / Bilinda Devage Nandadeva -- From Text To Image: Copying As Buddhist Practice In Late Fourteenth-century Sukhothai / M.l. Pattaratorn Chirapravati. Edited By Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, And Claudia Brown. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [189]-205) And Indexes.