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Vania Assis and Mary Hamilton French leaning over a table assembling a birchbark scroll
Conservators Vania Assis and Mary Hamilton French conserve a birch bark scroll in the Islamabad Museum, Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo: Mark Allon.
Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05330
Backlit page of a Qur’an on paper from Harar, Ethiopia. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05330.
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.
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
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
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,…
