Magical Recipes from the Grimoire of a Tibetan Bonpo Priest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. A Tibetan Book of Spells 15
5. Magical Recipes from the Grimoire of a Tibetan Bonpo Priest 35
6. Notes on a Bonpo Manual for the Production of Manuscript Amulets 61
7. Earth and Wind, Water and Fire: Book Binding and Preservation in pre-Mongol Bon Ritual Manuals for Consecrations 87
8. Preliminary Remarks on the Drangsong Collection of Bon Manuscripts in Mustang, Nepal 107
9. Preliminary Remarks on Bonpo Manuscripts in Dolpo 133
10. Towards a Definition of Local Orthographies of Bon Manuscripts: A Pilot Study 147
11. An Old Tibetan Myth on Retribution for Killing the Nyen (Gnyan stong): Manuscripts Scattered between Naxi, Tanguts, Eastern and Western Tibet 169
12. A Newly-Discovered Manuscript of the Bonpo Klu ’bum and its Canonical Transformation 213
13. The Lungyig Texts of the Leu Scriptures from the Phenchu Area, in Amdo 245
14. Lost in Translation? A Brief History of the Study of Dongba Manuscripts from its Beginnings to 1945 269
15. A ‘Key’ to the Dongba Script? A Re-Appraisal of a Set of Four Dongba Manuscripts, Held by the John Rylands Library 349
16. Paper in Dongba Manuscripts from the Weltmuseum in Vienna 389
17. Indexes 415