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Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry

by Cüppers, Christoph, Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Ulrich Pagel

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The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script types and 14 stupa models from the rich world of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

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Book data: Open Library