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M. Clemente, Master of Tibetan Print Culture: The Life and Deeds of lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal

M. Clemente, Autoglorificando il non-sé: ‘l’autobiografia interna’ del maestro tibetano Kun spangs pa Chos kyi rin chen 

M. Clemente, “In Search for Networks: Five Buddhist Fragmentary Illuminated Manuscripts of the Tucci Tibetan Collection”. In A. Helman-Wazny (ed.), Manuscript Flows in Highland Asia: Social Networks and Material Culture.

M. Clemente, “Case studies from the Tucci Tibetan Collection”. In A. Helman-Wazny & M. Viehbeck (eds.), Beyond Words: Object-based Approaches to Tibetan Book Culture, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing

M. Clemente, “Decorating Tibetan Buddhist Manuscripts: A Preliminary Analysis of Ornated Writing Frames”. Religions. Special Issue: Old Texts, New Insights: Exploring Buddhist Manuscripts, ed. by Soon-Il Hwang and Jaehee Han (to be published in 2024)

In corso di stampa

M. Clemente, “Par ma”. In G. W. Most, A. Eusterschulte & M. Kern (eds.) Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Vol. Tibet’s Philology (eds. D. Wangchuk & N. Bajetta), Princeton University Press.

M. Clemente, “Bris ma”. In G. W. Most, A. Eusterschulte & M. Kern (eds.) Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Vol. Tibet’s Philology (eds. D. Wangchuk & N. Bajetta), Princeton University Press. 

M. Clemente & F. Delìa, “Treating Two Illuminated Fragmentary Buddhist Manuscripts Preserved in the Tucci Tibetan Collection of the ‘IsIAO Library’: A New Approach”. In Proceedings of the 19th International Seminar of the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts, University of Copenhagen, 19-21 April 2023 (to be published in 2024)

M. Clemente, “Immortality through Relics in Tibetan Hagiographies: The Case of lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal (1473-1557)”. In D. Rossi (ed.), Fate and Immortality in Asia: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Serie Orientale Roma, n.s., Rome: Scienze e Lettere-ISMEO (to be published in 2024) 

M. Clemente, “A Preliminary Analysis of Title Frames in Bon po Manuscripts and Xylographs: Examples from the Tucci Tibetan Collection”. In D. Rossi, D. Antonucci, M. Clemente, D. Torri (eds.), Traditions, Translations and Transitions in the Cultural History of Tibet, the Himalayas and Mongolia, Serie Orientale Roma, n.s., Rome: ISMEO-Scienze e Lettere (to be published in 2024)

M. Clemente, “The Troubled Story of the Tucci Tibetan Collection and its New Life. A Preliminary Codicological Overview of the Bon Corpus”. In B. Lo Turco, A. Crisanti, V. Bella Lanza (eds.), The Oriental School of Rome. History, Figures, Cultural Scene, Manuscript and Book Collections. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 97/1-2 (to be published in 2024)

Pubblicati

M. Clemente (2024), “The Xylographic Print” (Chapter 7). In M. T. Kapstein (ed.), Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume I. Elements, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 231-250.

M. T. Kapstein & M. Clemente (2024), “Glossary of Tibetan Terms Relating to Manuscripts, Xylographic Prints, and their Manufacture”. In M. T. Kapstein (ed.), Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Volume II. Elaborations, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 233-243.

F. Lunardo & M. Clemente (2021), "Mi la ras pa's Representation in Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs: Preliminary Remarks on the Stylistic Changes of 'the Laughing Vajra' ". East and West 61/2, 159-182. 

M. Clemente (2021), Traditional Paths, Innovative Approaches and Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs, Serie Orientale Roma 24, n. s., Roma: Scienze e Lettere-Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente

M. Clemente (2021), “Introduction”. In M. Clemente (ed.), Traditional Paths, Innovative Approaches and Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs, Serie Orientale Roma 24, n. s., Roma: Scienze e Lettere-Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente, 1-11

M. Clemente (2021), “Discussing the Creation of a Template for the Identification of Tibetan Xylographs”. In M. Clemente (ed.), Traditional Paths, Innovative Approaches and Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs, Serie Orientale Roma 24, n. s., Roma: Scienze e Lettere-Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente, 31-40

M. Clemente, T. Chilvers, B. Quessel, C. A. Formigatti (2021), “Creating the Indo-Tibetan Books and Technology Database: Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs”. In M. Clemente (ed.), Traditional Paths, Innovative Approaches and Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs, Serie Orientale Roma 24, n. s., Roma: Scienze e Lettere-Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente, 63-73

T. Chilvers, M. Clemente (2021), “Mapping Printing Houses in Modern Tibet”. In M. Clemente (ed.), Traditional Paths, Innovative Approaches and Digital Challenges in the Study of Tibetan Manuscripts and Xylographs, Serie Orientale Roma 24, n. s., Roma: Scienze e Lettere-Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente, 75-83

M. Clemente (2020), “Appearances Can Be Deceptive: The Case of NGMPP AT 61/21”. In J. Bischoff, P. Maurer, C. Ramble (eds.), On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 103-121, 949-950

M. Clemente (2019), “The Restoration of the 'Phags pa lha khang by lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal according to His Biography”. In G. Orofino, A. Drocco, L. Galli, C. Letizia, C. Simioli (eds.), WIND HORSES. Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian Studies. Serie Minor 88-Serie Orientale Roma (n.s.) 23, Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale”, ISMEO – Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente, 49-64

M. Clemente, O. Nalesini, F. Venturi (2019), Perspectives on Tibetan Culture. A Small Garland of Forget-me-nots offered to Elena De Rossi Filibeck. Revue d'études tibétaines 51 (luglio)

M. Clemente (2019), “A Condensed Catalogue of 16th Century Tibetan Xylographs from South-Western Tibet”. In M. Clemente, O. Nalesini, F. Venturi (eds.), Perspectives on Tibetan Culture. A Small Garland of Forget-me-nots offered to Elena De Rossi Filibeck. Revue d'études tibétaines 51 (luglio), 73-98

M. Clemente (2018), “Mapping Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Buddhist Printed Works in South-Western Tibet. A Historical and Literary Reading”. In D. Rossi (ed.), Dialectics of Buddhist Methaphysics in East Asia. Tibet and Japan: An Inedited Comparison, Rivista degli Studi Orientali 91/1, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 19-41

M. Clemente (2017), “On a Particular Aspect of the Identification of Tibetan Xylographs: Preliminary Remarks on the Importance of Craftsmen”. In D. Cuneo, E. Freschi, C. A. Formigatti (eds.), Not Far Afield: Asian Perspectives on Sexuality, Testimony and Print Culture. A Coffee Break Project. Kervan-International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 21, 373-95

M. Clemente, F. Lunardo (2017), “Typology of Drawn Frames in Sixteenth Century Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs”. In V. Vergiani, D. Cuneo, C. A. Formigatti (eds.), Indic Manuscript Culture through the Ages: Material, Textual and Historical Investigations, Berlin: De Gruyter, 287-318

E. De Rossi Filibeck, M. Clemente, G. Milanetti, O. Nalesini, F. Venturi (2016), Studies in Honour of Luciano Petech: A Commemoration Volume 1914-2014. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 89/1, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore

M. Clemente (2016), “The Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects”. In H. Diemberger, F.-K. Ehrhard, P. Kornicki (eds.), Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 394-423

M. Clemente (2016), “Different Facets of Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs”. In O. Almogi (ed.), Tibetan Manuscript and Xylograph Traditions. The Written Work and Its Media within the Tibetan Cultural Sphere, Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg, 67-103

M. Clemente (2016), “The Patronage Network of lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal: From Brag dkar rta so to the ‘Phags pa lha khang”. In E. De Rossi Filibeck, M. Clemente, G. Milanetti, O. Nalesini, F. Venturi (eds.), Studies in Honour of Luciano Petech: A Commemoration Volume 1914-2014. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 89/1, Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 103-109

Clemente, M. (2015), “The Literary Work of lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal”. In H. Havnevik, C. Ramble (eds.), From Bhakti to Bon. Festschrift for Per Kvaerne, Oslo: Novus Forlag, 185-200

H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente (2014), Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

M. Clemente (2014), “Yidali de Tuqi zangxue yichan yafei yanjiuyuan tushuguan zangpinzhong yixie wenxian de yanjiu zongshu”. Zhongguo zangxue 1: 145-61

M. Clemente (2014), “Shedding Some Light upon lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal (1473-1557): A Study of Two Untranslated Works from the Tucci Tibetan Collection”. In F. Sferra, Dramdul (eds.), From Mediterranean to Himalaya. A Festschrift to Commemorate the 120th Birthday of the Italian Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci, Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, 435-502

M. Clemente (2014), “Tucci’s Legacy to Tibetan Studies in Italy: Surveys of Some Works of the IsIAO Library Collection”. In F. Sferra, Dramdul (eds.), From Mediterranean to Himalaya. A Festschrift to Commemorate the 120th Birthday of the Italian Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci, Beijing: China Tibetology Publishing House, 282-314

M. Clemente (2014), “Padmasambhava's chronicles”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente, Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 57-59

M. Clemente (2014), “Printing: The Wider Perspective”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente, Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 80-84

M. Clemente (2014), “The Mani bka' 'bum”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente, Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 88-89

H. Diemberger, M. Clemente (2014), “Printing and Patronage in Tibetan Buddhism”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente, Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 87

F. Lunardo, M. Clemente (2014), “An Illuminated Tibetan Manuscript on Blue-black Paper of Works by Khedrub Geleg Pelzang and Tsongkhapa”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente (eds.), Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 106-107

M. Elliott, F. Lunardo, M. Clemente (2014), “Book covers”. In H. Diemberger, M. Elliott, M. Clemente (eds.), Buddha's Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond, Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, 116-17

H. Diemberger, M. Clemente (2014), “Review of Bod kyi shing spar lag rtsal gyi byung rim mdor bsdus by Paltsek Research Institute”. Inner Asia 16/1, 222-23

M. Clemente (2013), “Review of Karl-Heinz Everding, Tibetische Handschriften und Blockdrucke. Die mTshur-phu-Ausgabe der Sammlung Rin-chen gter-mdzod chen-mo, nach dem Exemplar der Orientabteilung Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Teil 14, Bände 52-63”. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 86, 169-73

H. Diemberger, M. Clemente (2013), “Royal Kinship, Patronage and the Introduction of Printing in Gung thang: From Chos kyi sgron ma to lHa btsun Rin chen rnam rgyal.” In F.-K. Ehrhard, P. Maurer (eds.), Nepalica-Tibetica: Festgabe for Christoph Cüppers, Andiast: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH, 119-42

M. Clemente (2011), “From Manuscript to Block Printing: In the Search of Stylistic Models for the Identification of Tibetan Xylographs”. Rivista degli Studi Orientali 84, 51-66

M. Clemente (2009), “Review of The Light of Kailash. A History of Zhang Zhung and Tibet. Vol. 1. The Early Period by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu”. East and West 59, 403-405

M. Clemente (2008), “A Case Study of a nang gi rnam thar: The Example of Kun spangs pa Chos kyi rin chen’s Autobiography”. In O. Almogi (ed.), Contributions to Tibetan Literature. Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter 2006, Halle: International Institute for Tibetan Studies, 415-33

M. Clemente (2007), “Colophons as Sources: Historical Information from some Brag dkar rta so Xylographies”. Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici 2, 121-60

Pubblicazioni online

Contenuti del Database Indo-Tibetan Books and Technology: http://booksdb.socanth.cam.ac.uk:8080/exist/apps/TTBBC/index.html

Contenuti del sito web del progetto Marie Skłodowska Curie Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology (TiBET): www.tbevoltech.socanth.cam.ac.uk

 M. Clemente (2011), “Tucci Tibetan Collection as the Content of the Digital Bibliotheca Asiatica” (pp. 42-61) www.ideasconsortium.eu/

 F. D’Arelli, M. Csernel, S. Saccone, M. Clemente (2011), “Work package 3 Report”. IDEAS project Newsletter 2 (February): www.ideasconsortium.eu/