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Tibetan Buddhist Art (Hardcover)
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Tibetan Buddhist Art (Hardcover)
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This fascinating history by famed Tibetologist and adventurer Alain
Presencer features beautiful reproductions of never-before-seen
items from the author's private collection. Tibetan Buddhist Art
draws on the author's decades' worth of experience at the forefront
of his field and his manifold adventures to provide a comprehensive
and entertaining overview of a hitherto underrepresented subject.
Presencer complements his erudite yet accessible introduction to
Tibet's fascinating history, and its astounding variety of artistic
processes and objects, with stories from his intrepid travels,
including a rare sighting of a `sky burial' and an even rarer
venture down into a torture chamber deep in the bowels of the
Potala Palace. The book contains 59 pages devoted to showcasing
artefacts collected over the years during the author's many trips
to the Tibetan plateau. The pieces in question were recently put on
sale to private collectors at Bonhams but many are available here
for the general public to view for the first time. The collection,
comprising beautiful examples of statuary, religious and ritual
implements and thangkas (a Tibetan form of textile painting), is
reproduced with high-quality full-page spreads, allowing the
objects to retain all their magic and mystery.
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