Visualizing a Buddhist sutra
Subtitle: text and figure in Himalayan art
By: Laxman S. Thakur.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780195673142
Subjects: Tripiṭaka. -- Sūtrapiṭaka. -- Avataṃsakasūtra. -- Gaṇḍavyūha -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Tripiṭaka. -- Sūtrapiṭaka. -- Avataṃsakasūtra. -- Gaṇḍavyūha -- Illustrations
Description: "Visualizing a Buddhist Sutra analyses the murals, inscriptions, and manuscripts preserved at Tabo, one of the earliest and largest-Buddhist monasteries of the western Himalaya. The author presents an insightful comparison between text and mural, and also comments on the larger field of Buddhist art as being a mode of transmission of Buddhist ideas contained in the texts."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-155) and index.

Includes Tibetan facsimile text (Tibetan in roman also).