Brill's Tibetan Studies Library Tibetan Manuscripts and Rituals of the Royal Bön Priests of Mustang, Nepal: A Codicological and Historical Study, Book 57, (Hardcover)

The book explores a unique collection of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon religion. The loose-leaf and sewn books, cards and individual sheets of paper belong to the Drangsong family, the chaplains of the royal house of Mustang, once an autonomous Tibetan kingdom and now a district of Nepal. Most are ritual texts for propitiating war gods, acquiring prosperity, exorcising demons, and various kinds of destructive and preventative magic. Many of the texts are rare and some altogether unknown. Besides the textual content and social history, the book deals with the material sphere in which these manuscripts were produced, used and preserved.