The Mongolian collections : retracing Hans Leder / edited by Maria-Katharina Lang and Stefan Bauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lang, Maria-Katharina, editor.

Bauer, Stefan, 1972- editor.

Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst.

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, issuing body.

Weltmuseum Wien (Austria)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leder, Hans--Art collections.

Leder, Hans.

Leder, Hans--Ethnological collections.

Art, Mongolian--Private collections.

Art, Mongolian.

Buddhist art--Mongolia.

Buddhist art.

Buddhist art--Private collections--Europe.

Buddhist antiquities--Mongolia.

Buddhist antiquities.

Leder, Hans--Travel--Mongolia.

Ethnological museums and collections--Europe--Catalogs.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Antiquities.

Private collections.

Travel.

Art museums.

Mongolia--Antiquities--Private collections.

Mongolia.

Europe.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

137 pages, 62 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013.

Contents:

Preface / Maria-Katharina Lang

I. The collector and the collections / Maria-Katharina Lang

II. Mongolian Buddhism : identity, practice, and politics / Lhagvademchig Jadamba

III. Tsakli, thangkas, prints, amulets and manuscripts / Olaf Czaja

IV. Types of votive plaque (tshatsha) in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi

V.A Maitreya (tshatsha) in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi

VI. The Tsam figurines in Leder's collections : a reunion / Maria-Katharina Lang

VII. The Khüree-Tsam and its relations with the Tsam figures of the Leder collections / Krisztina Teleki

VIII. Cagān Öwgön : the White Old Man in the Leder collections : the textual and iconographic tradition of the cult of the White Old Man among the Mongols / Ágnes Birtalan

IX. The depictions of the Five Personal Protective Deities in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi

X. Equestrian warrior deities in the Leder collections : some aspects of the Mongolian war god / Ágnes Birtalan

XI. Various depictions of Zanabazar / Maria-Katharina Lang

XII. Different types of prayer flag in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi

XIII. The stronghold of good luck : a unique representation connecting to the cult of prayer flag / Béla Kelényi.

Notes:

Academy publication.

"This publication was realised within the project 'Mongolian Ethnographica of the Austrian Collector Hans Leder in European Museums, ' supported by the research programme forMuse (Research at Museums) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (2010-2012). Maria-Katharina Lang (project director) / Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Weltmuseum Wien"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783700175209

3700175205

OCLC:

869208516