{"id":5469,"date":"2004-09-23T17:13:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T01:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/5469\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T01:13:45","slug":"tibetan-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5469","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once when Diane and I were in Carmel, we went into an antique store which specialized in East Asian antiques.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Hanging on the wall was a sort of red quilt, which was like Tibetan or Nepalese, which was a holder for a bunch of metal oblong plates.<br \/>\nEach of the plates had writing on it.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>I now have no idea what those plates are called or what they were.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n  They were not &#8220;normal&#8221; Tibetan books, nor the blocks with which to print them.  These were large, flat, and thin, with script painted onto them in a very regular, precise style.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nThe little books (&#8220;PECHA&#8221;)  are usually made from long, narrow pages, patterned after the long dried leaves used in ancient Indian books.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>There are two canonical texts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kangyur<\/b> &#8211; translated quotes from the Buddha- basically the equivalent of the Gospels<\/li>\n<p><lI><b>Tangyur<\/b> &#8211; discourse on the Kangyur by Indian philosophers- sort of like the Talmud<br \/>\n<\/lI>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also have yet to decipher this phrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/tibetanprinting\/manu.html\">Par-Shinu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every gompas had &#8216;&#8216;Karchak&#8217;&#8217; on &#8216;&#8216;Neyik&#8217;&#8217;&#8211;guide took for pilgrims containing history and praised of the monastery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>These books were printed with wood blocks.  Apparently the big printing monasteries were Narthang, Gangchi.  Some monasteries (Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Kadampa) printed in red, and one (Gyelukpa) used yellow-dyed paper.  I don&#8217;t know what the significance of this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once when Diane and I were in Carmel, we went into an antique store which specialized in East Asian antiques. Hanging on the wall was a sort of red quilt, which was like Tibetan or Nepalese, which was a holder for a bunch of metal oblong plates. Each of the plates had writing on it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}