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Two Illuminated Text Collections of Namgyal Monastery: A Study Of Early Buddhist Art and Literature In Nepal

Author :  Christian Luczanits, Markus Viehbeck

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Country
Nepal
Publisher
Vajra Books, Nepal
ISBN 9789937733243
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 393p. Incl. Color Illustration
Categories Religion - Buddhism
Product Weight 1700 gms.
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Namgyal Monastery lies at an altitude of 3,850 meters, on a hill west of Lo M?ntang, the old capital of the Mustang kingdom, a very remote region in the Nepalese-Tibetan borderlands. While its foundation goes back to earlier times, its fifteenth- century enlargement established it as a thriving Buddhist institution providing a home to a huge number of monks and a remarkable collection of Buddhist material culture including statues, thangkas, and manuscripts. Among these various sacred objects, two collections of Buddhist canonical literature stand out for their age and complex illumination programmes. This book presents the visual and textual contents of these two sets of Buddhist manuscripts and analyses them from the perspectives of manuscript studies, art history, and textual analysis.

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