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Author:

Kerin, Melissa R. author.

Title:

Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya / Melissa R. Kerin.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvii, 242, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Subject:

Gyapagpa Lhakhang (Nako, India)
Buddhist mural painting and decoration--Nako--Nako--16th century.
Buddhist art and symbolism--Nako.--Nako.
ʼBri-guṅ-pa (Sect)--Nako.--Nako.
Nako (India)--Civilization.
Kinnaur (India)--Civilization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index. Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Pennsylvania, 2008).

Contents:

Nako's sociopolitical history and artistic heritage -- Forgetting to remember : Gyapagpa Temple's shifting identity -- Mapping Drigung activity at Nako and in the western Himalaya -- Gyapagpa temple's painting style and its antecedents -- Origin and meaning of a revival painting tradition.

Series:

Contemporary Indian studies

ISBN:

0253013062 (cl : alk. paper)
9780253013064 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898029310

LCCN:

2014046775

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)