Creating the Indo-Tibetan books and technology database: digital challenges in the study of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs

This article is a joint effort of four people involved in a AHRC Project entitled "Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture; The Introduction of Printing and Digital Text Reproduction in Tibetan Societies" and a Marie Curie Project entitled "Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology". It recounts how the database of manuscripts and xylographs called "Indo-Tibetan Books and Technology" was created by the authors of the article, and describes the content of this digital tool. The database contains entries of about 250 xylographs from South-western Tibet dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries.