Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal

by Gudrun Buhnemann

This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces one specific tradition of Siddhas transmitted by artists from Nepal. This artistic legacy, which is related to a corpus of texts that go back through *Srisena and Bu ston, includes two paintings and an incomplete set of line drawings. One of the paintings is an early-sixteenth-century "paubha" of Vajradhara surrounded by the eighty-four Siddhas (now preserved in the National Art...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9994693344
• ISBN13: 9789994693344
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Lumbini International Research Institute
• Length: 288 Pages