People started to come on pilgrimage just to be in the presence of all of the teachings of Buddhism in these engraved woodblocks, and people circumambulated the printing house itself as a religious practice…

It’s a beautiful sense of literacy in which the oral and the material work together and enrich each other.

The Fifth Dalai Lama embraced the power of publishing in his efforts to create modern Tibet. The different schools of Tibetan Buddhism then each took up the project of engraving and printing their massive corpuses to promulgate and preserve their legacies: a project that continues today with such digital projects as 84000.