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Chakraverty, Anjan

Summary: "Sacred Buddhist Painting is a lucid and readable account of thangka painting - a form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. Tibetans were often advised by their religious preceptors to commission a painting for the 'removal' of physical or mental obstacles, or to create the prerequisites for 'a long and healthy life'. Like any other virtuous deed, the commissioning of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lustre Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.951 CHA

Behl, Benoy K.

Summary: In 1819, a group of British soldiers on a hunting expedition chanced upon the Ajanta caves, lying in the horseshoe-shaped ravine of a river some 200 miles northeast of Bombay. Ranging in date from the second century BC to the sixth century AD, the paintings and sculptures that they found there now rank among the world's most important cultural treasures. Since the rediscovery of the caves,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1998

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 751.73 BEH

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