Visualizing a Buddhist sutra : text and figure in Himalayan art

Visualizing a Buddhist sutra : text and figure in Himalayan art / Laxman S. Thakur.

This work analyses the inscriptions, murals, and manuscripts of the Avatamsakasutra of the Tabo monastery, focusing particularly on the Gandavyuhasutra and comments on Buddhist art being a mode of transmission of Buddhist ideas contained in texts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thakur, Laxman S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Tibetan
Published: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Tabo > Kloster.
Tripiṭaka. > Sūtrapiṭaka. > Avataṃsakasūtra. > Gaṇḍavyūha > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tripiṭaka. > Sūtrapiṭaka. > Avataṃsakasūtra. > Gaṇḍavyūha.
Buddhist painting > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Buddhist mural painting and decoration > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Buddhist art and symbolism > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Buddhist art and symbolism.
Buddhist mural painting and decoration.
Buddhist painting.
Wandmalerei
Handschrift
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Description
Summary:This work analyses the inscriptions, murals, and manuscripts of the Avatamsakasutra of the Tabo monastery, focusing particularly on the Gandavyuhasutra and comments on Buddhist art being a mode of transmission of Buddhist ideas contained in texts.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 161 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199081943
0199081948
Language:Text in English and Tibetan.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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