Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya

by Kerin, Melissa R.

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Title Statements

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

Summary

Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community, subsumed within its religious framework and communal memory. Melissa Kerin traces the devotional, political, and artistic histories that have influenced the paintings' production and reception over the centuries of their use. Her interdisciplinary approach combines art historical methods with inscriptional translation, ethnographic documentation, and theoretical inquiry to understand religious images in context. -- Amazon.com.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
Place of Publication:Bloomington
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

Notes

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

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 242, 16 pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 27 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780253013064, 0253013062
oclc:ocn898029310
LC Classification:ND2829.N35
Dewey Decimal:755/.943095452

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.

Subjects

Buddhist art and symbolism Buddhist art and symbolism -- India Buddhist mural painting and decoration Buddhist mural painting and decoration … Buddhistische Kunst Civilization Gyapagpa Lhakhang Gyapagpa Lhakhang (Nako, India) India -- Kinnaur Kinnaur (Inde) -- Civilisation Kinnaur (India) -- Civilization Nako (India) -- Civilization Wandmalerei ʼBri-gung-pa (Sect) ʼBri-gung-pa (Sect) -- India