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Book Art of the Himalayas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pratapaditya Pal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Art of the Himalayas written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium of paintings, textiles, metal sculptures, ritual objects; aesthetic, religious contexts.

Book Himalayan Bronzes

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  • Author : Chandra L. Reedy
  • Publisher : Associated University Presse
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780874135701
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Himalayan Bronzes written by Chandra L. Reedy and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himalayan Bronzes focuses on a complete study of 340 medieval-period copper alloy sculptures from the Himalayan regions of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and Tibet. For more than 1,500 years, artists in isolated valleys in and adjacent to the mountains of the Himalayas have created magnificent copper-based statues representing deities and spiritual leaders of the Hindu, Buddhist and Bon-Po religions. Author Chandra L. Reedy's multidisciplinary approach to the study of these statues integrates methods and techniques from art history, art conservation, geology, chemistry, statistics, archaeology, and ethnography to answer art historical and anthropological questions. Her guiding premise is that gathering and combining several types of information will result in more and better answers than any one type alone.

Book Indo Tibetan Bronzes

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  • Author : Ulrich von Schroeder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9789627049012
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Indo Tibetan Bronzes written by Ulrich von Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sacred Buddhist Painting

Download or read book Sacred Buddhist Painting written by Anjan Chakraverty and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a lucid account of thangka painting. A form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. It introduces readers to the irirdescence of colours representing the archetypal Buddhist images of good and evil. It features thangkas from renowned collections the world over.

Book Portraits of the Masters

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  • Author : Heather Stoddard
  • Publisher : Serindia Publications
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781932476002
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Portraits of the Masters written by Heather Stoddard and published by Serindia Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Hoare's impressive collection of Tibetan portrait bronzes is presented together with an in-depth history of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The volume contains chapters in Tibetan art, religion, and culture describing the successive schools such as the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, Kadam and Geluk. Color plates of the portrait bronzes of the leaders of the schools are incorporated, accompanied by the stories associated with each leader.

Book Tibetan Art

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  • Author : Lokesh Chandra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Tibetan Art written by Lokesh Chandra and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich artistic heritage of Tibet reveals the depths of meditations of great masters, translated into the majestic abundance of iconic symbols that take the form of three-dimensional images or two-dimensional thankas. Tibetan Art is a comprehensive introduction to the complex iconography of thankas. It provides a glimpse of the mindground of this art and the land where it flourished. Although Tibetan Art portrays the historic Buddha Sakyamuni, the arhats, spiritual masters, great lamas, and founders of different religious lineages, the preponderance of its images depict supramundane beings. Predominantly these are: the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, female deities, protectors or tutelary gods (yi-dams), defenders of the faith, guardians of the four cardinal points, minor deities and supernatural beings.

Book Tibetan Artifacts

Download or read book Tibetan Artifacts written by Mircea Veleanu and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a book on Tibetan art and antiques with 500 brilliant color photographs that provide a broad survey and visual reference guide. It presents Tibetan thangka and tantric religious art and ritual objects, manuscripts, woodblock prints, document holders, sculptures, furniture, tea services, snuff holders and smoking equipment, swords, daggers, armor, jewelry, textiles, musical instruments, and writing tools and seals. The engaging text is both a brief history of Tibet and information concerning every art form and antique displayed. The arrangement of the materials by type offers a quick and easy reference guide to this wide variety of wares. Values for the items shown are provided in the captions. For anyone with a passion for Tibet, Oriental art, and antiques, this book will be a welcome addition to the reference library.

Book Desire and Devotion

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  • Author : Pratapaditya Pal
  • Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Desire and Devotion written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The catalogue is accompanied by two introductory essays: "Introduction: Desire and Devotion," by Pratapaditya Pal, and "Artistic Production, Religious Practice: Material and Ideological Constraints," by Hiram Woodward."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Buddhist Art  Sculpture and Paintings from India  Nepal and Tibet

Download or read book Buddhist Art Sculpture and Paintings from India Nepal and Tibet written by Anna Maria Rossi and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Images of Enlightenment

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  • Author : Jonathan Landaw
  • Publisher : Snow Lion
  • Release : 2006-09-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Images of Enlightenment written by Jonathan Landaw and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in its explanation of the relationship between the multifaceted symbolism of Tibetan Buddhist deity images and meditative practice.

Book The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet

Download or read book The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet written by David Weldon and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tibetan Paintings

Download or read book Tibetan Paintings written by George Roerich and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only recently that the systematic study of Buddhist Art has been inaugurated. Thanks to scientific excavations and explorations carried out in India by the Indian Archaeological Survey, in Central Aisa by a number of archaeological missions on behalf of different governments, and in China by the pioneer work of the eminent French sinologist, the late Edouard Chavennes, we possess a number of invaluable facts which enable us to reconstruct the vast domain of Buddhist Art. It is true that it is not yet possible to write a history of Buddhist Art in all its phases and different epochs. This huge work remains to be done, and we only can hope that future investigations in this field will facilitate the scholar's task. But if the complete history of Buddhist Art is still to be written, we can already affirm the unity of its evolution. -- Introduction.

Book Ruthless Compassion

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  • Author : Robert N. Linrothe
  • Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0906026512
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Ruthless Compassion written by Robert N. Linrothe and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical development of Esoteric Buddhism in India is still known only in outline. A few verifiably early texts do give some insight into the origin of the ideas which would later develop and spread to East and Southeast Asia, and to Tibet. However, there is another kind of evidence which can be harnessed to the project of reconstructing the history of Esoteric Buddhist doctrines and practice. This evidence consists of art objects, mainly sculpture, which survive in significant numbers from the 6th to the 13th century.

Book 108 Buddhist Statues in Tibet

Download or read book 108 Buddhist Statues in Tibet written by Ulrich von Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces some of the finest examples that illustrate the development of art in and round in Tibet. This work describes Buddhist sculpture from the vast number recorded and researched by the author. It features 419 Buddhist sculptures in the collection of the Jo khang / Lhasa gTsug lag khang. Mostly unknown to the outside world, the temples and storerooms of Tibet's monasteries shelter a great number of ancient Buddhist objects. Not only are there a great number of Buddhist sculptures and paintings produced by Tibetan artists, but also rare examples

Book Hidden Treasures of the Himalayas

Download or read book Hidden Treasures of the Himalayas written by Amy Heller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying these texts within and examining the styles of the manuscript illuminations, Amy Heller was able to shed light on the lost history of this remote Tibetan enclave, the spread of Buddhism in the Himalayas and its artistic legacy. The manuscripts, sculptures and mural paintings discovered in Dolpo are the concrete expression of the complex economic, political, artistic and religious interactions between the people of Dolpo and their neighbors in India, Nepal and Tibet. --

Book Worlds of Transformation

Download or read book Worlds of Transformation written by Marilyn M. Rhie and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly respected authors of Abrams' acclaimed Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet comes a new volume devoted to 200 sublime Tibetan thangka paintings from the premier New York collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. The works span the 12th through 20th centuries and the spectrum of Tibetan artistic schools; each one is reproduced in color and most are published here for the first time.This magnificent volume presents an analysis of each painting in terms of iconography and religious meaning, style, regional lineage, and sources. In addition, David Jackson discusses the paintings of the Kagyupa order in the Rubin Collection.This volume continues the authors' groundbreaking efforts to understand the complexity of Tibetan art, and seeks to make these splendid and profound works accessible to a wider public.