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Visualizing a Buddhist sutra : text and figure in Himalayan art
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thakur, Laxman S., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Avataṃsakasūtra. Gaṇḍavyūha--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Tripiṭaka.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 161 p., [32] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.)
- Other Title:
- Visualizing a Buddhist sutra
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work analyses the inscriptions, murals, and manuscripts of the Avatamsakasutra of the Tabo monastery, focusing particularly on the Gandavyuhasutra and comments on Buddhist art being a mode of transmission of Buddhist ideas contained in texts.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199081943 (ebook) :
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