Wooden wonders : Tibetan furniture in secular and religious life / edited by David Kamansky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamansky, David, 1944-

Pacific Asia Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furniture--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Exhibitions.

Furniture.

China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Serindia Publications, [2004]

Contents:

Director's Statement / Joan Marshall 7

Tibetan Furniture: Construction, Form and Function / Luca Corona, Camilla Hulse Corona 23

Some Links Between Tibetan Furniture, Wall Mural and Thangka Painting / Jonathan Bell 61

A Multifaceted Relationship: Textiles and Tibetan Painted Furniture / Dale Carolyn Gluckman 71

The Tibeto-Newar Furniture of Kyirong / Ian Alsop 87

Tibetan Tables: The Evolution of Style and Function / Tony Anninos 95

The Stanford Table: A Fifteenth Century Lama Table / John Listopad 107

The Power and Purpose of Tibetan Furniture: A Collector's Experience / Ruth Sutherlin Hayward 111

Torgams and Yangams and Their Ritual Use / Geshe Lobzang Tsetan, Kathleen Kernell 143

Offerings to the Protectors of the Buddha's Teachings / Stephen Markel 159

Sacred Inspiration, Practical Adaptation: At Home in Tibet / Pamela Logan 163

Carbon 14 Analysis 345.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, Nov. 13, 2004-Feb. 13, 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.

ISBN:

1932476172

1932476164

OCLC:

56214187