Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry
Subtitle: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub; Brill
Published: Jun 01, 2012
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9789004180147
Description: The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script types and 14 stupa models from the rich world of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.
Notes: Source title: Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library) (English and Chinese Edition)