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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Thakur, Laxman S. Visualizing a Buddhist sutra. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)989122971 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laxman S Thakur |
ISBN: | 019567314X 9780195673142 |
OCLC Number: | 62701419 |
Language Note: | Includes Tibetan facsimile text |
Description: | xi, 161 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Laxman S. Thakur. |
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Abstract:
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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