Note on a. Stael-Holstein's "Double Publication" (Baron A. Von Stael-Holstein's Works‪)‬

In the current academic climate, in which scholars regularly publish similar or nearly identical material in several different forms and venues, the case of a past scholar's inadvertent "double publication" and his reaction to it can be instructive. Baron A. von Stael-Holstein (1877-1937), a scholar of Tibetology and Buddhology, is the person in question. In Stael-Holstein's works we find two papers that are quite similar in contents and were published at almost the same time: 1. "On Two Tibetan Pictures Representing Some of the Spiritual Ancestors of the Dalai-Lama and of the Panchen Lama," Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping (BNLP) 6 (1932) 150-127, with two plates.