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Author Kerin, Melissa R., author.

Title Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya / Melissa R. Kerin.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary Indian studies
Contemporary Indian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
Contents Nako's sociopolitical history and artistic heritage -- Forgetting to remember: Gyapagpa Temple's shifting identity -- Mapping Drigung activity at Nako and in the western Himalaya -- Gyapagpa's temple painting style and its antecedents -- Origin and meaning of a revival painting tradition.
Summary Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community, subsumed within its religious framework and communal memory. Melissa Kerin traces the devotional, political, and artistic histories that have influenced the paintings' production and reception over the centuries of their use. Her interdisciplinary approach combines art historical methods with inscriptional translation, ethnographic documentation, and theoretical inquiry to understand religious images in context.
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Subject Gyapagpa Lhakhang (Nako, India)
Gyapagpa Lhakhang (Nako, India)
Buddhist mural painting and decoration -- India -- Nako -- 16th century.
Buddhist mural painting and decoration.
India.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Buddhist art and symbolism -- India -- Nako.
Buddhist art and symbolism.
ʼBri-gung-pa (Sect) -- India -- Nako.
ʼBri-gung-pa (Sect)
Nako (India) -- Civilization.
Kinnaur (India) -- Civilization.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Kerin, Melissa R. Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya 9780253013064 (DLC) 2014046775 (OCoLC)898029310
ISBN 9780253013095 (electronic book)
0253013097 (electronic book)
9780253013064
0253013062