This new volume by the authors of the highly acclaimed Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet presents over 200 full-color Tibetan tangka paintings from the collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. The works span the 12th through the 20th centuries and the full spectrum of Tibetan artistic schools. This important contribution to the understanding of Tibetan art provides analysis of each painting in terms of iconography, religious meaning, style, regional lineage, and sources. An essay by David Jackson discusses the paintings of the Kagyupa school in the Rubin collection.
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