Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya / Melissa R. Kerin.

  • Kerin, Melissa R.
Date:
[2015]
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Publication/Creation

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Physical description

xvii, 242, 16 unnumbered pages of colour plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 27 cm.

Notes

Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Pennsylvania, 2008).

Contents

Nako's sociopolitical history and artistic heritage -- Forgetting to remember : Gyapagpa Temple's shifting identity -- Mapping Drigung activity at Nako and in the western Himalaya -- Gyapagpa temple's painting style and its antecedents -- Origin and meaning of a revival painting tradition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    ZFJ.AL.23
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ISBN

  • 9780253013064
  • 0253013062