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Author Thakur, Laxman S.

Title Visualizing a Buddhist sutra : text and figure in Himalayan art / Laxman S. Thakur
Published New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 161 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English and Tibetan
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SUBJECT Tabo -- Kloster. swd
Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avataṃsakasūtra. Gaṇḍavyūha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avataṃsakasūtra. Gaṇḍavyūha. fast (OCoLC)fst01356186
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081943
0199081948