HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover edition. 286pp. Quarto in blue cloth. B&W photos and illustrations. Bump to front board upper corner, spine lightly cocked; interior clean and crisp; light shelf wear to jacket. International Series in Chinese Art and Archaeology, No. 1.
Verlag: Hahn Foundation for Museum Seoul 1997, 1997
Anbieter: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
34.0 x 26.0cms 224pp 100 colour illusts very good+ hardback in very good decorated slipcase A tangkasnet variously spelt as thangka tangka thanka tangkasnet or tanka is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton silk appliqu? or human skin usually depicting a Buddhist deity scene or mandala . These thangkas all come from the Himalayas and were the basis for Hahn''s proposed museum of Chinese Korean & Japanese art. The headings are: mandala tsokshing; tathagatas; patriarchs; tutelary & wrathful deities; Avalokiteshvara & other Bodhisattvas; dharma-protecting deities; arhats; miscellaneous; art of the Bon religion. Scarce title.