Gateway to the temple. Manual of Tibetan monastic customs, art, building and celebrations

by Thubten Legshay Gyatsho, Chogay Trichen

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First edition

Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 1979. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. 12 , 88; text illustrations and 20 photographs on plates, two large color folding plates; parallel text in English and Tibetan; full green cloth, pictorial endpapers; light soiling to boards, text clean and sound, about fine. Intended as both a practical manual for the production of temples and the practice of ceremony, and as a representation of the Tibetan perspective on aesthetics and

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