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Author : Kristie Combs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Study of Merit and Power in Tibetan Thangka Painting written by Kristie Combs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829941
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Silk Road written by Christopher I. Beckwith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic account of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols. In addition, he explains why the heartland of Central Eurasia led the world economically, scientifically, and artistically for many centuries despite invasions by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, and others. In retelling the story of the Old World from the perspective of Central Eurasia, Beckwith provides a new understanding of the internal and external dynamics of the Central Eurasian states and shows how their people repeatedly revolutionized Eurasian civilization. Beckwith recounts the Indo-Europeans' migration out of Central Eurasia, their mixture with local peoples, and the resulting development of the Graeco-Roman, Persian, Indian, and Chinese civilizations; he details the basis for the thriving economy of premodern Central Eurasia, the economy's disintegration following the region's partition by the Chinese and Russians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the damaging of Central Eurasian culture by Modernism; and he discusses the significance for world history of the partial reemergence of Central Eurasian nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Empires of the Silk Road places Central Eurasia within a world historical framework and demonstrates why the region is central to understanding the history of civilization.
Author : David Jackson
Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Thangka Painting written by David Jackson and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally back in print the only book available that gives detailed descriptions of the techniques and principles of the art of Tibetan scroll painting. Explores in detail the background, themes, methods, and materials used to create these wonderful symbolic works.
Author : David Paul Jackson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Thangka Painting written by David Paul Jackson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the techniques of the sacred art of Tibetan scroll painting.
Author : José Roleo Santiago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Thangka written by José Roleo Santiago and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pratapaditya Pal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Paintings written by Pratapaditya Pal and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Miller Livingston
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (485 download)
Download or read book A Study of the Iconography, Style, and Origin of Three Tibetan Thangka Paintings written by Amy Miller Livingston and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the style and iconography of three brightly colored and carefully detailed paintings depicting three of the five Jina Buddhas, along with a host of other deities. As I will show, these paintings were originally produced as part of a set of five, although the whereabouts of the other two are not known. This partial set is one of the earliest known commissions to a Nepali artist from a Tibetan patron, and a wonderful document of the fine craftsmanship of the Nepali painter combined with the complex and symbolic iconography of Tibetan Tantric art. Although these three paintings have come to be publicly known only in the last forty years, they have since been published frequently in books on Tibetan or Nepali painting, especially museum collection or exhibition catalogues. However, much of the iconography has not been identified or discussed at any length. In particular, the small deities in the top and bottom horizontal registers of all three paintings have been illustrated exactly as described in the Buddhist texts, however their identities have, for the most part, gone undocumented. One task of this paper is to properly identify all of the deities in these three paintings, including the Jina Buddhas, the Eight Great Bodhisattvas, or Astamahabodhisattvas, and many other popular Buddhist deities, and discuss their iconography in the Tibetan context. I will also discuss the translation of the Tibetan inscription on the reverse of two of these paintings and the consecration ritual. Following this is an analysis of the stylistic characteristics of these paintings, which have been variously dated to the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. By comparing them with the mural paintings at the Shalu Monastery, I suggest that they most probably date from the early to mid-fourteenth century.
Author : David Paul Jackson
Publisher : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Tibetan Painting written by David Paul Jackson and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a first attempt at exploring the sacred painting traditions of Tibet from the mid-15th through 20th centuries on the basis of both the surviving pictorial remains and the extensive written sources that survive in the Tibetan language. The study of this period of Tibetan art history has in effect been neglected in recent years in favor of the earliest periods. Yet the vast majority of extant masterpieces of Tibetan Buddhist painting belong to this more recent period, and the relevant written and pictorial resources now available, though they have never been fully utilized until now, are in fact quite rich. The present study attempts in the first place to identify the great founders of the main schools of Tibetan painting and to locate references to their surviving works of sacred art. Through recourse to the artists own writings, if available, to the biographies of their main patrons, and to other contemporaneous or nearly contemporaneous sources, it has been possible to clarify many of the circumstances of the careers of such famous Tibetan painters as sMan-bla-don-grub, mKhyen-brtse-chen-mo and Nam-mkha-bkra-shis, who were the founders of the sMan-ris, mKhyen-ris and Karma sgar-bris traditions, respectively. For the convenience of students and researchers, the book includes a survey of the main available Tibetan sources and studies, both traditional and modern, as well as a detailed summary of previous Western research on this subject. It also presents the texts and translations of the most important passages from the main traditional sources. This richly illustrated volume also includes detailed indices, and it will be an indispensable guide and reference work for anyone interested in Tibetan art.
Author : David Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877734604
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Thangka Painting written by David Jackson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Jackson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780394542058
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Thangka Painting written by David Jackson and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Powers
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559392827
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism written by John Powers and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism available to date, covering a wide range of topics, including history, doctrines, meditation, practices, schools, religious festivals, and major figures. The revised edition contains expanded discussions of recent Tibetan history and tantra and incorporates important new publications in the field. Beginning with a summary of the Indian origins of Tibetan Buddhism and how it eventually was brought to Tibet, it explores Tibetan Mahayana philosophy and tantric methods for personal transformation. The four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as Bön, are explored in depth from a nonsectarian point of view. This new and expanded edition is a systematic and wonderfully clear presentation of Tibetan Buddhist views and practices.
Author : Detlef Ingo Lauf
Publisher : Hunter House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Secret Revelation of Tibetan Thangkas written by Detlef Ingo Lauf and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 1976 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pema Namdol Thaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Tibetan Thanka Painting written by Pema Namdol Thaye and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn M. Rhie
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
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.
Author : Marylin M. Rhie
Publisher : Tibert House
ISBN 13 : 9780967011509
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Worlds of Transformation written by Marylin M. Rhie and published by Tibert House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibet's sacred paintings are among the most marvelous creations of the human spirit, eye, and hand, a fascinating part of the great tapestry of the history of world civilizations. Arising from the Buddhist enlightenment movement, this art seeks not only to delight the viewer, but also to move and inspire the heart and spirit of the human being who seeks a deeper meaning for life and a higher future for all humanity. Worlds of Transformation furthers our understanding of this art, opening our imagination to the limitless transformative possibilities of life itself. In Worlds of Transformation, Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman study two hundred superb Tibetan tangka icon paintings, most never before published. These are lucidly explained, giving the history of the paintings and their creators, revealing their stylistic sophistication and variety, and offering insight into their transformative imagery.
Author : Rachel Levy
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Portraits as Relic written by Rachel Levy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents a close iconographic and contextual study of a set of seven Tibetan thangka paintings depicting portraits of the First through the Ninth Dalai Lamas, currently in a private collection and dated to the nineteenth-century. Through this case study, I propose to situate the genre of Dalai Lama portraits within the larger context of Tibetan Buddhist practice by considering their role and function in merit-making activities. I propose that as visual reminders of the Dalai Lamas, these portraits can be considered a type of "relic" that is foundational to devotional practices in Buddhism. Specifically, this thesis will investigate portraits of Dalai Lamas within the framework of Buddhist relic traditions. As a secondary focus, the thesis will examine the artistic conventions through which the figures are rendered present, problematizing the notion of "portrait-likeness."
Author : David Paul Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984519057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Place of Provenance written by David Paul Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locate paintings geographically using a method similar to that used for locating paintings in time
