The Mongolian collections
Subtitle: retracing Hans Leder
By: edited by Maria-Katharina Lang and Stefan Bauer
Contributors: Austria. Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Weltmuseum Wien
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Vienna
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9783700175209
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Mongolian Art; Private collections; Art collections; Ethnological collections; Buddhist art; Buddhist antiquities; Travel; Ethnological museums and collections; Catalogs; Antiquities
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.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Maria-Katharina Lang; title: I. The collector and the collections / Maria-Katharina Lang; title: II. Mongolian Buddhism : identity, practice, and politics / Lhagvademchig Jadamba; title: III. Tsakli, thangkas, prints, amulets and manuscripts / Olaf Czaja; title: IV. Types of votive plaque (tshatsha) in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi; title: V. A Maitreya (tshatsha) in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi; title: VI. The Tsam figurines in Leder's collections : a reunion / Maria-Katharina Lang; title: VII. The Khüree-Tsam and its relations with the Tsam figures of the Leder collections / Krisztina Teleki; title: 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; title: IX. The depictions of the Five Personal Protective Deities in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi; title: X. Equestrian warrior deities in the Leder collections : some aspects of the Mongolian war god / Ágnes Birtalan; title: XI. Various depictions of Zanabazar / Maria-Katharina Lang; title: XII. Different types of prayer flag in the Leder collections / Béla Kelényi; title: XIII. The stronghold of good luck : a unique representation connecting to the cult of prayer flag / Béla Kelényi.