THE VISUAL CULTURE OF TIBET AND THE HIMALAYAS
Studies in Tibetan art, archaeology, architecture, cinema, and photography from pre-history to the 21st century

Introduction by Amy Heller and Leigh Miller

Table of Contents:


ARCHAEOLOGY AND EARLY TIBET

John Bellezza 
Facsimiles of the Earliest Ritual Architecture on the Plateau: A Comprehensive Survey of Stepped Shrines in the Rock Art of Upper Tibet

Laurianne Bruneau
In between Kashmir and Xinjiang: Buddhist remains of the Nubra region. Results of the Franco-Indian Archaeological Mission in Ladakh (Abstract)

David Pritzker 
Allegories of Kingship: animal motifs in equestrian equipment and banquet ware of the Tibetan Empire (Abstract)

MONASTIC ART

Nils Martin
The lDe, the ’Bro, and the sMer: Inscriptional Evidence from the Temple of Avalokiteśvara at Mangyu (Abstract)

Sarah Richardson 
Painting the Path to Perfection with a Book on the Walls: The Buddha’s Former Lives in Shalu’s Circumambulatory Passage

TIBETAN ARCHITECTURE

Knud Larsen 
The Architecture of the Medical College on Chakpori, Lhasa

Eva Seegers 
Stūpas in Khams: Observing the Rebuilding of Material Culture in Tibet

20TH - 21ST CENTURY VISUAL ARTS

Elisabeth Haderer
Tibetan Art Goes West – The Transmission of Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Art to Europe in the 20th/ 21st Centuries

Françoise Robin 
Women in Pema Tseden’s films: a so far uneasy relationship. A brief overview

Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy 
Tibetan amateur fiction movies from the Gesar heartland: Imagi(ni)ng modernity in a ‘remote’ pastoral region of Kham

Patrick Sutherland 
Re-Imagining the Frame: Some reflections on contemporary photography in Spiti (Abstract)

Nicola Schneider
The female in contemporary Tibetan art: the artist Monsal Pekar (b. 1964)

Leigh Miller
The Look of Art without Religion: A Case Study in Contemporary Tibetan Art in Lhasa
Hosted on an outside site, digital version of the journal Himalaya

Amy Heller 
Tibetan artists and Tibetan identity: who's who and since when?