Catalogue of the Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang in the Stein Collection

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Mode of access: Online. OTA website A descriptive catalogue of the tantric Buddhist material found in the Stein collection of Tibetan manuscripts at the British Library. These are the earliest extant Tibetan manuscripts, and therefore the earliest sources relating to Tibetan tantric Buddhism. Dalton, Jacob. A Crisis of Doxography: How Tibetans Organized Tantra during the 8th-10th Centuries, in Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (under consideration). van Schaik, Sam. The Tibetan Avalokitesvara Cult in the Tenth Century: Evidence from the Dunhuang Manuscripts. In Studies in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Literature, ed. Christian Wedermeyer and Ronald M. Davidson. Leiden: EJ Brill, 2005 [forthcoming]. The catalogue appears as part of the IDP website: http://www.idp.bl.uk