Principles of Tibetan Art: Illustrations and Explanations of Buddhist Ioconography and Iconometry According to the Karma Gardri School [TIBETAN TEXT WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION]

445 pp. Tibetan text with English translation, over 130 illustrations throughout. Describes the origins of the graphic arts of Buddhism, defines the qualities and the education of an artist, gives a complete technical survey of the bodily proportions and compositions in thangka painting (peaceful and wrathful sacred figures, ornaments, gestures, attributes, garments) and specifies the criteria determining quality in art.