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Hell Lives: Material and Social Worlds of a Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript

Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina (2025) Hell Lives: Material and Social Worlds of a Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 78 (2). pp. 309-319. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

The Ernst Collection of Tibetan and Mongolian manuscripts and xylographs includes an incomplete Mongolian manuscript titled ‘Various great hells’ ( eldeb ǰüil-ün yeke tam-nuγud orsibai ). It consists of thirteen folios on which various Buddhist hells are depicted. The accompanying text is written all around the illustrations. On the basis of a detailed description of the manuscript and its classification in the Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhist hell literature I will analyse the interplay between text and image of this manuscript. The analysis takes a fresh look at the creation of the Mongolian ǰiruγ-tu nom , the ‘picture-books’ and provides new insights into their social use.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism; Mongolian manuscript culture; Ernst Collection; Dambaniršag; Buddhist hells; ǰiruγ-tu nom
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2025 11:23
Last Modified: 26 Aug 2025 11:23
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/222882

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