Project saving Tibet鈥檚 ancient literature
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Over 18,000 precious ancient books written in Tibetan have been filed for study and protection as part of a decade-long general survey in southwest China鈥檚 Tibet Autonomous Region.
Among the filed books, 291 have been selected for inclusion on the list of valuable ancient books of the state. A dozen books on survey results have also been published.
China has hundreds of thousands of works of ancient Tibetan literature, more than half collected in over 1,300 temples, monasteries and libraries, museums and archives across Tibet. In 2009, as part of the ancient Chinese literature protection program, Tibet launched a general survey of its ancient books. Staff with the autonomous region鈥檚 ancient literature protection center visited almost all the collection sites across Tibet over the past 10 years.
鈥淲e have worked closely with over 1,200 collection sites and several thousand collectors during the survey,鈥 said Penpa Tsering, deputy director of the center.
Tenzin Guyzang manages a temple in Xigaze. Instead of the old way of preserving ancient books by shelving them, hidden from view, the books of indigo pages and golden characters are neatly labeled and displayed in glass cabinets.
He said the precious literature, over 40 works in total, now have their own unique 鈥淚D鈥 and have been registered in the national database of ancient literature.
鈥淢ost of them were donated by private collectors over the past decade. Now under the guidance of experts, they are effectively protected,鈥 said the 53-year-old monk.
In June 2013, Nyishar, an expert of the center, received a call saying a large number of ancient books were on the brink of destruction in a dilapidated chapel in a village under Gyirong, a county on the China-Nepal border.
The village had no roads, electricity or optical cables connecting it with the outside world, and heavy snow was forecast, which would cut it off until the following spring.
Nyishar raced against time to reach the village. With the help of villagers, he filed and restored all the 270 books, each over 500 pages, in just 16 days.
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