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Decorative and protective cloth ‘robe’ and ‘belt’ wrapped around 2 pothi-style manuscripts. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00055 and MSS 00056.
Decorative and protective cloth ‘robe’ and ‘belt’ wrapped around 2 pothi-style manuscripts. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00055 and MSS 00056.

Detail of a 19th-20th-c. manual for divination and astrology ('Bras rtsis vai dkar dgongs don dri med kun phan me long) in dBu can script. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan M11
Detail of a 19th-20th-c. manual for divination and astrology showing small red boxes and text divisions filled with text

Tibetan Ro dngos grub (Corpse Stories), 20th-c. manuscript scroll, 35 cm x 15 metres. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00006.
Front view of Tibetan Ro dngos grub (Corpse Stories), 20th-c. manuscript scroll, 35 cm x 15 metres. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00006.

Detail of a mthing shog (blue-black) manuscript containing the Praise to 21 Taras. Private collection of R. Spelker.
Detail of a mthing shog (blue-black) manuscript containing the Praise to 21 Taras, showing colourful border lines and gold text in a display script. Private collection of R. Spelker.

Hidden Stories researcher Thinley Gyatso (PhD Candidate, Buddhist Studies, U Toronto) studying the popular Tibetan folk story of Prince Wanu Ralpa in a 17-18th-c. painted copy. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00067
Thinley Gyatso (PhD Candidate, Buddhist Studies, U Toronto) studying the popular Tibetan folk story of Prince Wanu Ralpa in a 17-18th-c. painted copy.

Pothi-style Nepalese paper manuscripts at the Āśā Saphūkuthi (Āśā Archives) in Kathmandu - cleaned, sorted, and wrapped in archival lokta paper and unbleached cotton cloth for storage by local teams of trained technicians. Photo: Bidur…
Pothi-style Nepalese paper manuscripts at the Āśā Saphūkuthi

Detail of the scribal work and paper of the Newari Buddhist Pañcarakṣā sūtra. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Tibetan MSS 00015.
Detail of paper and some writing from a page of the Newari Buddhist Pañcarakṣā sūtra

The Goddess Mahāsītavatī from the opening leaf of the Nepalese Pañcarakṣā sūtra (Sutra of the Five Protectresses), created at the Taramūla Monastery in Kathmandu in the year Samvat 867 (1746). MSS 00015, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library,…
The Goddess Mahāsītavatī from the opening leaf of the Nepalese Pañcarakṣā sūtra. Many-armed, seated with a fiery nimbus behind her, and floating in a sky landscape. In Hidden Stories, represents the Himalayas Research Area.

Bidur Bhattarai (Center, in blue) gathered with young visitors at the Āśā Saphūkuthi, Kathmandu.
Bidur Bhattarai (Center) gathered with ~40 young visitors at the Āśā Saphūkuthi, Kathmandu.
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