[PDF.73xa] Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)

Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)

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 | #338382 in Books |  2012-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.75 x11.50 x1.25l,6.55 | File type: PDF | 386 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Incredible book on the proportions underlying Tibetan Buddhist iconography.|By M. Sweeney|If you are a student of Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, you'll find this book a sheer treasure. It's a reproduction of a 17th-century manuscript of grids for drawing the pantheon of Tibetan Buddhism. No smeary printing or thick smudged lines or wrinkled onionskin paper in this volume.| |'the work so well reproduced in the present volume must henceforth serve as a veritable pierre de touche. In some three hundred precise illustrations, we find here a detailed catalogue of iconometric standards, including divinities of all types, their a

The Handbook of Iconometry (Tibetan title: Cha tshad kyi dpe ris Dpyod ldan yid gsos) constitutes a lavishly illustrated treatise laying down the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. The book was produced in ca. 1687 at the instigation of the famous scholar and statesman sde srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho (1653 1705). Today, the original is kept in the Tibet Autonomous Region Archives (Lhasa). The Handbook inclu...

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