Painted images of the Enlightenment: early Tibetan thankas, 1050-1450 ... with a foreword

by Pratapaditya Pal by Steven Kossak

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Mumbai : Marg Publications, 2010 . First edition, large 4to, pp. 220; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ever since the publication of Giuseppe Tucci's monumental book on thankas in 1949, early Tibetan thankas have fascinated scholars. In 1984, when Pratapaditya Pal wrote his groundbreaking book Tibetan Painting, probably fewer than 50 of these 11th-14th-century Tibetan paintings on cloth were known. Since then over 300 early

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