Art and the Architecture

Nine experts on conservation discuss and present their views of twenty-nine years of international participation in restoring ancient temples in Nepals Kathmandu Valley. These discussions, illustrated with drawings and photographs, focus on the Sulima Temple in the Patan Darbar Square, possibly the oldest intact multi-tier pagoda in the Kathmandu Valley

Kathmandu Valley Paintings Author: Hugo E. Kreijger

The Lhasa Atlas Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape Author: Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen

Pp. 343 (1); 277 illustrations (56 fine color photos, 221 black-and-white photos). Publisher\\s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. The Tibetan collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art is one of the most significant and comprehensive outside of Tibet, built around the Nasli and Alice Heeramanock Collection and including paintings collected in the 1930s by Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci (from jacket flap). The volume closes with an appendix…

Ruthless Compassion; Wrathful Deities in Early Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Art Author: Rob Linrothe

Buddhist Stupas in Asia: The Shape of Perfection Author: Joe Cummings

Nepal:. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley Author: Micheal Hutt

Attention to Himalayan Buddhist art has come to the forefront of art historical scholarship in recent years, especially in the areas of connoisseurship and attribution. Several major exhibitions have highlighted the artistic achievements of the Himalayan cultures, yet very few have focused primarily on the reasons for the creation of the art and its original intent. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art attempts to fill this lacuna in the scholarship by showing that the function of Himalayan Buddhist art…

Some of the most important Tibetan Buddhist monuments to have survived the ravages of history are the temples and chapels at Gyantse in Southern Tibet. In a chapel on the upper floor of the Palkhor Tsuglagkhang there exist superb wall paintings of the legendary eighty-four mahasiddhas – tantric adepts who, through effort and practice, have attained perfection and are endowed with extraordinary powers.

Among all the religious monuments of the world, the stupa has the longest uninterrupted historical development. Through modeled after the Indian prototype, the stupa architecture was developed in all the countries where Buddhism had flourished. Over time, the structural shape of the stupa underwent significant modifications in India and the other Asian Buddhist countries.

History of Civilizations of CENTRAL ASIA Vol I, II, III, IV & IV(i) Author: A. H. Dani and V. M. Masson ISBN : 81-208-1409-6 (Set)

NEPAL Old Images, New Insights Author: Pratapaditya Pal

Gyantse and its Monasteries INDO-TIBETICA, Vol 1-4 Author: Guiseppe Tucci

THE PEOPLES WAR IN NEPAL: Left Perspectives AUTHOR - Arjun Karki, David Seddon

Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure Author: Pratapaditya Pal

Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of "Ksaya-Vrddhi"--diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter

Art and Architecture of India in two Vol

Man has, from times immemorial, exhibited a striking predilection for symbols. Which, through written words, drawings, sculptures or other visual/iconographic representations, seem to have shaped much of mankind’s culture. From the simplest, yet eloquent, drawings on the walls of the prehistoric caves, through the sophistication of Egyptian imagery, the sculptural embroidered wealth of a Khajuraho, or the convoluted elegance of a Mannerist painting — all interweave iconographic imagery so inextricably into their very core that, without its visual/didactic richness, these…

Beginning with a few aniconic symbols, like footprints, the Bo tree or stupas, in the pre-christian Indian art, Buddhism, over the centuries, came to evolve a be-wildering array of deities — in ever-increasing number of pantheons. Interestingly, in Buddhism today, there are perhaps as many pantheons as there are countries, or internal regions or sects within them. Chou Fo P’u-sa sheng Hsiang Tsan, in focus here, is one of these many Buddhist pantheons and acknowledgedly the ‘culmination of Lamaist art’.…

The emergence of Tantrism and Shaktism in the sixth-seventh centuries in ancient India symbolised a belief in fertility worship, worship of the female principle with the Devi/Goddess supreme as the Energy/Power — the substance of everything, pervading everything. In Orissa in particular, the shakta/tantra cults played a major role in the religion and culture of the region and this is testified by its many temples and sculptural wonders therein. In this work, Prof. Donaldson presents a rich and variegated picture…