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Autore: | Kerin Melissa R. |
Titolo: | Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya / / Melissa R. Kerin |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina: | 755/.943095452 |
Soggetto topico: | Buddhist mural painting and decoration - India - Nako - 16th century |
Buddhist art and symbolism - India - Nako | |
Soggetto geografico: | Nako (India) Civilization |
Kinnaur (India) Civilization | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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's temple painting style and its antecedents -- Origin and meaning of a revival painting tradition. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 ins |
Titolo autorizzato: | Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya |
ISBN: | 0-253-01309-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910460910503321 |
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