White bloom on a Tibetan blue-black/ mthing shog manuscript. Private Collection.

Minyak Rinpoche reading a mthing shog manuscript of the Praises to the Twenty-One Tārās.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia examining paper in a Tibetan Buddhist manuscript in the MacDonald Collection. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Tibetan Buddhist texts. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Tibetan Buddhist texts. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, UofT.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia visiting with Sikkimese texts during research trip to UofT’s Fisher Library.

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia and Za Thinley Gyatso visiting with Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts in the Lhalungpa Collection, UofT’s East Asian Library. Gyatso completed description work for the hundreds of books in the collection.

Image of amatl/ ficus fibre of a Techialoyan Codex (1690-1720) taken at UofT’s Yip Lab with ZEISS Axio Z1 optical microscope, 40x magnification (Axoloapan Xoloctlan, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).