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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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Prologue : a study of the Gandavyuhasutra
  • 2. Enframed inscriptional panel and Tibetan manuscript
  • 3. pilgrim's progress : the narrative pictorials
  • 4. inscriptional text
  • 5. Epilogue : the cultural heritage of Tabo.

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