Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its borderlands.
The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focusing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomatics).
With contributions by Roland Bielmeier, Anne Chayet, Helga Uebach, Kazushi Iwao, Siglinde Dietz, Yoshiro Imaeda, Bianca Horlemann, Brandon Dotson,Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Cristina Scherrer-Schaub.
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is Buddhologist and Tibetologist, and Secretary General of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. She is Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Directeur d'Ãtudes at the Ãcole Pratique des hautes Ãtudes, Paris (France) and the author of several publications in the field of Old Tibetan Studies and Textual Transmission.