"The first attestation of the word paper (
shog) in Tibetan literature appeared in 744-745, while its use for bureaucratic functions would have presupposed prior knowledge of reading and writing in Tibetan script."
Georgios T. Halkias in Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. (page 53)
photo from the sde dge printing house, summer 2015.
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