Handbook of Tibetan iconometry : a guide to the arts of the 17th century / edited by Christoph Cüppers, Leonard vander Kuijp, Ulrich Pagel ; with Chinese introduction by Dobis Tsering Gyal

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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

Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Chinese Introduction by Dobis Tsering Gyal; List of abbreviations; Plates; Table of legends; Corresponding passages in the Vaidūrya g. Ya' sel (vol. 1, 292v6 to vol. 2, 30r4) that provide information about the illustrations in the Dpyod ldan yid gsos; List of divinities; List of scripts; List of stūpas

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