Animal, vegetable, mineral: the making of Buddhist texts - [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000 ] A yak will provide most of the things humans need to survive: meat and milk, fibre and fuel, traction and transport – and, last but not least, warmth and companionship. A traditional Tibetan recipe for making a luxurious blue-black paper goes a step further: it lists fresh yak brain, along with soot and a small amount of hide glue. Mixed into a glutinous paste, these ingredients create the glossy surface used to stunning effect in illuminated manuscripts.Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and ... | Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

Animal, vegetable, mineral: the making of Buddhist texts - [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000 ] A yak will provide most of the things humans need to survive: meat and milk, fibre and fuel, traction and transport – and, last but not least, warmth and companionship. A traditional Tibetan recipe for making a luxurious blue-black paper goes a step further: it lists fresh yak brain, along with soot and a small amount of hide glue. Mixed into a glutinous paste, these ingredients create the glossy surface used to stunning effect in illuminated manuscripts.Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and ...

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1	Animal, vegetable, mineral: the making of Buddhist texts - [Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000 ] A yak will provide most of the things humans need to survive: meat and milk, fibre and fuel, traction and transport – and, last but not least, warmth and companionship. A traditional Tibetan recipe for making a luxurious blue-black paper goes a step further: it lists fresh yak brain, along with soot and a small amount of hide glue. Mixed into a glutinous paste, these ingredients create the glossy surface used to stunning effect in illuminated manuscripts.Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and ... (This link leads to the external institution page)	Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Cambridge	2015-04-28

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