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The Dalai Lama's secret temple : tantric wall paintings from Tibet / text by Ian A. Baker ; photographs by Thomas Laird ; introduction by Tenzin Gyatso.
LIBRA ND2849.T5 B35 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Ian, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhist mural painting and decoration--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Buddhist mural painting and decoration.
- China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tantric art--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Tantric art.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2000.
- Summary:
- During the brief reign of the Sixth Dalai Lama, who built Tibet's Potala Palace in the 18th century, unknown artists created a series of mysterious paintings on the walls of the temple's private chapel. Comparable in quality to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, these masterpieces of Tibetan art are reproduced for the first time in this extraordinary publication. 200 illustrations, 151 in color.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500510032
- OCLC:
- 45679921
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