Publications

2024      Tauscher, Helmut. “Tibetan Manuscript Kanjurs.” In Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Volume II, Elaborations, edited by Matthew T. Kapstein, 7-33. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press.

2023      Tauscher, Helmut. “Chinese Whispers? Transmitting, Transferring and Translating Buddhist Literature.” In Burlesque of the Philosophers: Indian and Buddhist Studies in Memory of Helmut Krasser, edited by Vincent Eltschinger, Jowita Kramer, Parimal Patil, Chizuka Yoshimizu, 719-754. Bochum/Freiburg: Projektverlag.

2022      Viehbeck, Markus, and Bruno Lainé. The Manuscript Kanjur from Shey Palace, Ladakh: Introduction and Catalogue. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien.

2021      Viehbeck, Markus. “The Toyo Bunko Manuscript Kanjur and Its Importance for the Study of the Tibetan Buddhist Canon: An Introduction.” Tokyo: Toyo Bunko.

2021      Viehbeck, Markus, and Christian Luczanits. Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery: A Study of Early Buddhist Art and Literature in Mustang. Vajra Academic 1. Kathmandu: Vajra Books.

2021      Tauscher, Helmut. Spug Ye shes dbyangs: Mdo sde brgyad bcu khungs, an Early Tibetan Sūtra Anthology. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien.

2021      Viehbeck, Markus. “Human Engagement on Manuscript Margins: Glimpses into the Social Life of a Collection of Buddhist Sūtras from Mustang.Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 58 (April): 103-138.

2020      Tauscher, Helmut. “Early phyi dar Manuscripts from Ladakh.” Historical and Philological Studies of China’s Western Regions 14: 205-220.

2020      Viehbeck, Markus. “From Sūtra Collections to Kanjurs: Tracing a Network of Buddhist Canonical Literature across the Western and Central Himalayas.Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 54 (April): 241-260.

2019      Tauscher, Helmut. “Manuscript Fragments from Matho: A Preliminary Report and Random Reflections.” In Perspectives on Tibetan Culture: A Small Garland of Forget-me-nots Offered to Elena De Rossi Filibeck, edited by Michela Clemente, Oscar Nalesini, and Federica Venturi, 337-378. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 51 (July).

2015      Tauscher, Helmut. “Kanjur.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Vol. 1: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, 103-111. Leiden: Brill.

2015      Tauscher, Helmut. “Manuscripts en route.” In Cultural Flows across the Western Himalaya, edited by Patrick Mc Allister, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, and Helmut Krasser, 365-392. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2015      Tauscher, Helmut, and Bruno Lainé. “The ‘Early Mustang Kanjur’ and its Descendents.” In Tibet in Dialogue with its Neighbours: History, Culture and Art of Central and Western Tibet, 8th to 15th Century, edited by Erika Forte, Liang Junyan, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Zhang Yun, and Helmut Tauscher, 292-295 (plates), 463-481. Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House & Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien.

2009      Lainé, Bruno. “Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections.Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 5 (December): 1-32.

2008      Tauscher, Helmut. Catalogue of the Gondhla Proto-Kanjur. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien.

2008      Tauscher, Helmut, and Bruno Lainé. “Western Tibetan Kanjur tradition.” In The Cultural History of Western Tibet: Recent Research from the China Tibetology Research Center and the University of Vienna, edited by Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Junyan Liang, Helmut Tauscher, Yuan Zhou, 339-362. Vienna: China Tibetology Research Center & Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien.

2007      Tauscher, Helmut. “The Rnal ‘byor chen po bsgom pa’i don Manuscript of the ‘Gondhla Kanjur’.” In Text, Image and Song in Transdisciplinary Dialogue: PIATS 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003, edited by Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Kurt Tropper and Christian Jahoda, 79-103. Leiden: Brill.

1994      Tauscher, Helmut. “Tanjur Fragments from the Manuscript Collection at Ta pho Monastery: Sambandhaparīkṣā with Its Commentaries Vṛtti and Ṭīkā.East and West 44/1: 173-184.