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The term Serindia was first coined by Sir Aurel Stein as the name he gave to the

cultures which he began to uncover in the Taklamakan desert at the beginning

of the 20th century. It delineates the watershed of culture traversed by the silk roads

between India and China. Stein took as his inspiration the name of ‘Seres’ given by the

Greek historian Pausanias in circa 180 BC to that vast stretch of land which rested at the

confluence of India, China and Persia and which served as the conduit for the trade in

silk, and equally significantly in the transmission of Buddhism from its northern Indian

homeland to all corners of Asia. Geographically, Serindia embraces all of the regions

from the Himalayas and Pamirs in the south to the Mongolian steppe in the north,

from Dunhuang and Xi’an in the east to the Caspian sea in the west. Culturally, Serindia

is everything that has emerged from these regions: from the Graeco-Indian forms of

Gandhara to the voluptuous line of the Tang international style. It refers to the graceful

and wild lyricism of the Himalayan valleys and plateaus as well as to the bold and direct

designs of the desert and steppe.

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THE SILK ROAD: TRADE, TRAVEL, WAR & FAITH Edited by Susan Whitfield

This new catalogue on the Silk Road is published to accompany a major exhibition at the British Library. Containing high-quality reproductions of the exhibits and extended captions, this book

will also consist of a substantial introduction by the editor, and essays by leading scholars presenting new research based on the great range of items displayed.

There has never been an exhibition of such a large part of the Aurel Stein collection, comprising manuscripts, paintings, artifacts in equal numbers and with emphasis on both religious and secular material and all languages and cultures. The catalogue will therefore be an essential purchase for all scholars of Central Asian and Silk Road history and art, and its extensive illustration and accessible texts will prove attractive to a much wider range of readers.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by Susan Whitfield• The Rise of Sogdian Merchants and the Role of the Huns: The

Historical Importance of the Ancient Sogdian Letters by Etienne de la Vaissière

• How much for a Camel? A New Understanding of Money on the Silk Road before AD 800 by Helen Wang

• Iranians, Indians, Chinese and Tibetans: The Rulers and Ruled of Khotan in the First Millennium by Prods Oktor Skjærvø

• Jade and the Silk Road: Trade and Tribute in the First Millennium by Carol Michaelson

• The Tibetan Military System and its Activities from Khotan to Lop-Nor by Tsuguhito Takeuchi

• Official Life at Dunhuang in the Tenth Century: The Case of Cao Yuanzhong by Rong Xinjiang

• Where Chan and Tantra Meet: Tibetan Syncretism in Dunhuang by Sam van Schaik and Jacob Dalton

• Dunhuang Characters and the Dating of Manuscripts by Imre Galam-bos

• Star Charts on the Silk Road: Astronomical Star Maps in Ancient China by Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud and Françoise Praderie

• Aurel Stein, The British Museum and the India Office by Frances Wood• A Short History of the Conservation of the Dunhuang Manuscripts

in London by Mark Barnard and Frances Wood

The Catalogue• Sogdiana: Trade, Travel and Faith• Khotan• Kroraina: A Desert Kingdom• Miran: War and Faith• Dunhuang: Watchtowers and Cave Temples• Gaochong: Nomads and Farmers• Bibliography, Index

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Sir Aurel Stein

AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROADSusan Whitfield

A Beautifully illustrated account of the adventures of the great Silk Road explorer and archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein, whose expeditions a century ago

included the discovery of an amazing hoard of Buddhist paintings, hidden since the 11th century inside a secret cave at Dunhuang.

Highlights:

• An intrepid story of exotic places and new discoveries• Illustrated with modern digital images of the Buddhist

masterpieces alongside historical archive photographs tak-en by Stein and his companions during their expeditions

• First publication of the new digital British Museum Stein archive

• Published to coincide with a major exhibition opening at the British Library.

Description:

In 1900 a secret sealed-up cave was discovered by a Dao-ist priest among the many caves dotting the cliff face at Dunhuang, an oasis town on the Silk Road. Its entrance had been plastered over and disguised but, when opened, it was revealed to be crammed with ancient Buddhist manuscripts, printed documents and paintings. The sheer volume and ex-ceptional condition of the finds, preserved in the desert cli-mate since the early eleventh century, excited international archaeological and popular interest. In 1907, Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1942), a Hungarian-born explorer employed by the British in India, was the first foreigner to gain access to the secret cave archive at Dunhuang. His expeditions, published in full in the 1920s, made him a celebrity whose intrepid exploits helped to reveal the long-forgotten history and exotic geography of the Silk Road.

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WOODEN WONDERSTibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious LifeEdited by David KamanskyContributing Authors: David Kamansky, Luca Corona and Camilla Hulse Corona, Jonathan Bell, Dale Gluckman, Ian Alsop, Tony Anninos, John Listopad, Ruth Hayward, Geshe Lobzang Tsetan with Kathleen Kernell, Stephen Markel and Pamela Logan

“The Tibetan style of furnishing is elaborate and luxurious …when it is carried out with taste it has a bold, barbaric fascination that can hardly be excelled.”

So Fosco Maraini characterised the Tibetan interior during his travels on the plateau in the late 1930s. Within twenty years the world he so vividly described would be swept away

in the tide of the Chinese invasion and the later Cultural Revo-lution. Yet while so much of Tibetan material culture was lost forever, furniture has survived and re-surfaced in the 21st century as one of the great new subjects in Tibetan design and aesthetics.

Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious Life is the catalogue of an exhibition opening in November 2004 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. Encompassing masterpieces of Tibetan furniture design and decoration in all its forms, the 148 exhibits are drawn from the large group of public and private collections in the western United States, the result of an active interest in the preservation and research of this long overlooked Tibetan art form.

This particular catalogue does not merely follow the genre’s traditional format but seeks to communicate both the aesthetic significance of these exceptional works of art and the important role they have played over the centuries in the daily and spiritual lives of the people of Tibet. The works in the exhibition, therefore, were selected both for their aesthetic and historical importance, and most are being publicly displayed for the first time. All are lavishly illustrated in colour from several different angles, and each is accompanied by details of type, date (backed up in several cases by Carbon 14 testing), dimensions and description of deco-ration and materials.

The exhibition and catalogue were developed by an extraordinary team of curators, scholars, and writers led by David Kamansky of the Pacific Asia Museum. Wooden Wonders presents eleven articles from this team ranging from Luca Corona and Camilla Hulse Corona’s comprehensive survey of Tibetan furniture types and methods of construction and decoration to more specialist discussions such as Dale Gluckman’s article on textile patterns in the furniture’s painted decoration and Geshe Lobzang Tsetan’s elucidation of the ritual uses to which some of the furniture was put. The glossary that closes the book provides for the first time a review of the terminology associated with Tibetan furniture.

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opposite:Detail from a wooden trunk,Tibet, 17th-18th century

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DEMONIC DIVINEHimalayan Art and BeyondRob Linrothe Jeff WattWith an essay by Marylin Rhie and a foreword by Matthieu Ricard

The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in the Chelsea districtof New York City opens in October 2004 with an exhibi-tion Demonic Divine: Himalayan Art and Beyond. This cata-

logue, written to accompany the exhibition, also stands alone as a lively and scholarly examination of a subject that has over time and across cultures fascinated humankind: “horrific beauty.”

Demonic Divine: Himalayan Art and Beyond focuses on wrathful and fierce images once labeled by Europeans as “demonic,” and now open to more sympathetic investigation. Examining closely 66 works of art, the authors take us behind Western preconceptionsto explore ways that fearsome imagery is used in Himalayan cultures, including representation of protection and benevo-lence. Over two hundred color images highlight visual power and artistic skill in works that blur the boundaries between horror and beauty. Essays by Rob Linrothe, Curator, RMA and Associate Professor of Art History at Skidmore College, and Marylin Rhie, Professor of Asian Art at Smith College, explore variations within the “demonic” and trace the evolution of style. Contributions from Jeff Watt, RMA Curator and Director of the Himalayan Art Website (www.himalayanart.org), are evident throughout. Matthieu Ricard, author, monk, and scientist, provided the foreword.

Demonic Divine brings together works of art from RMA, other mu-seums, and private collections. The widespread fascination with the demonic” is demonstrated by a series of works from Europe and the Americas.

This volume is an essential reference for libraries, art historians, connoisseurs, and any reader willing to confront horrific beauty.

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8.5 x 11.5” 344 pp.200+ color illustrations

Hardcover US$75.00 ISBN 1-932476-15-6

Softcover US$49.95 ISBN 1-932476-08-3

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PARADISE & PLUMAGEChinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat PaintingsRob Linrothe

A visually stunning inaugural catalogue of the Rubin Mu-seum of Art, New York, scheduled to open in October 2004. This 104-page volume celebrates and explores the

artistic exchange between Tibet and China from the 13th to the 19th century, taking the theme of Buddhist Arhat painting as a concise lens through which to view the wider ramifications of ar-tistic and cultural interaction. Examining the exchange of motifs, compositions, and modes of representation, Paradise & Plum-age reveals the creative reassignment of meaning when Tibetan artists appropriate aspects that may derive from older Chinese traditions and vice versa.

The catalogue features a rich selection of objects and paintings, ranging from a fine 17th-century Kesi textile from the Newark Museum to a delicate mid-14th-century hanging scroll from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Also included are traditional Arhat objects, such as furniture, pottery, pieces of coral and tur-quoise, and scholars’ rocks.

Arhat paintings are often created in sets. However, due to politi-cal conditions and the distribution of works over time, older paintings are seldom seen in this context. The Rubin Collections are fortunate to hold eighteen Arhat paintings from a 17th-cen-tury set of twenty-three, including both attendants and all four direction guardians; these are reproduced in the catalogue in a full-color appendix.

Catalogue designed by America’s legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser.

RMA & Serindia Publications

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THE FLYING MYSTICS OF TIBETAN BUDDHISMGlenn H. Mullin

ISBN 1-932476-18-0

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Large-scale clay sculptures representing the main deities are characteristics of the earliest Tibetan Buddhist monu-ments and particularly of the monasteries and village-tem-

ples built from the end of the 10th to the early 13th centuries in West Tibet and Ladakh. Commonly placed in the main niches along the central axis of the monuments, these images of highest quality constitute a major source for the cultural and religious history of western Himalayan (Indo-Tibetan) art and early Tibetan art in general. Based on extensive field research and in situ documentation for more than a decade, this groundbreaking study provides a comprehensive assessment of the early western Himalayan sculptures and their context.

Western Himalayan clay sculpture is the only preserved sculp-tures known so far that are built in accordance with the sophisti-cated sculptural technique described in Indian classical literature. It is closely linked to late Northwest-Indian (Buddhist) art in which otherwise little evidence remains. By surveying the aston-ishing variety of these sculptures and linking them to contempo-raneous painting and other art forms such as woodcarving, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the develop-ment of western Himalayan art and its variegated forms of local adaptations.

By tracing the spread and origin of iconographic forms and motifs, this study illuminates the interaction between Indian and Tibetan art when Buddhism was firmly established in the west-ern Himalayas. Finally, it summarizes how the heritage of early western Himalayan art and sculpture has continued. The surveyed monu-ments include the Tabo Assembly Hall, Ropa, Nako, Lalung, Dungkar as well as the early temples of Alchi, Mangyu and Sumda.

The 323 illustrations—most of them in situ documentation in color as well as archival photography, plans and diagrams—make this intensely cross referenced and indexed book an indispensable source for anyone interested in western Himalayan and early Tibetan art. The stunning quality and distinctive aesthetics of the sculptures, many of them represented on a full page, make it also a visual feast.

BUDDHIST SCULPTURE IN CLAYEarly Western Himalayan Art, late 10th to early 13th centuriesChristian Luczanits

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opposite:Vairocana (Sumda Assembly Hall)

both illustrations from Buddhist Sculpture in Clay

Manjusri (Alchi)

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THE CIRCLE OF BLISS Buddhist Meditational ArtJohn C. Huntington Dina Bangdel

Attention to Himalayan Buddhist art has come to the forefront of art historical scholarship in recent years, especially in the areas of connoisseurship and attribution. Several major exhibitions

have highlighted the artistic achievements of the Himalayan cultures, yet very few have focused primarily on the reasons for the creation of the art and its original intent. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art attempts to fill this lacuna in the scholarship by showing that the function of Himalayan Buddhist art is to interpret and give physical form to specific Buddhist practices.

The exhibition catalogue for The Circle of Bliss points the way to an entirely new direction for the study of the visual representations of the Chakrasamvara Tantra and other key Buddhist Tantras. The texts of the Chakrasamvara Tantra offer profound meditational techniques to practitioners to enable them to experience the increased awareness necessary for reaching the ultimate state of human perfection, or Enlightenment. Here, for the first time in Himalayan art historical scholarship, the works of art are presented in their socio-religious context, with details about how their symbolic visual language expresses the attainment of that path. The study focuses on the esoteric meditations related to Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi, which are regarded as among the principal meditational practices throughout the Himalayan Buddhist world. Long believed to be taught only to initiated disciples, the details of these meditations have gradually come into the light of modern scholarship over the last sixty years. With this increased public awareness, the authors have been allowed a unique opportunity to explain these esoteric processes without breaking any of the still-secret traditions. The book’s thematic emphasis provides a clear, well-articulated overview of the Himalayan Buddhist meditational process from its inception through its completion stages.

Featuring approximately 160 of the aesthetically finest and most powerful masterpieces of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian art produced over the past thirteen centuries, the catalogue includes many works published for the first time. It highlights the extraordinary artistic accomplishments of esoteric Buddhism and at the same time leads the reader to understand the intrinsic function of these exquisite works. In this in-depth contextualization of the art works, the complex world of Himalayan Buddhist art has been explicated beyond aesthetic appreciation to a germane understanding of its innermost meaning and its service in the pursuit of Enlightenment.

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PORTRAITS OF THE MASTERSBronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages

Edited by Donald DinwiddieContributing Authors: Heather Stoddard, Donald Dinwiddie, Ramon N. PratsPeter Alan Roberts, Cyrus Stearns and Tenzin Dechen Rochard

Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism is rapidly becoming a part of our cultural landscape, an element of human civilisation with its own universal appeal. Nevertheless public aware-

ness remains limited concerning the great teachers and visionar-ies who over fourteen centuries formulated and expounded the system of thought which in the 21st century seems the most contemporary of the world religions. And yet there is a rich written tradition dating back at least 800 years documenting their lives and teachings, and an even more ancient tradition of portraiture in sculpture and painting which strove to capture both the physical and spiritual presence of these lamas.

Portraits of the Masters unfolds for the first time a pictorial history of a dynamic and living religious tradition. A catalogue of 108 portrait bronzes of great masters of the Tibetan Buddhist tradi-tions, it presents an innovative history of these teaching lineages based on and illustrated by the collection. Ranging in date from the 12th to 18th century, the sculptures in Portraits of the Masters span the most productive period in the history of Tibetan Bud-dhist art, providing unparalleled illustration of Tibetan portrai-ture’s long and varied history.

Prefaced with a groundbreaking and comprehensive history of Tibetan portraiture, the collection is presented in five sections devoted to the Arhats, drawn from the Buddha’s original Indian disciples, and to the native Tibetan schools of the Nyingma, Ka-gyu, Sakya, and the Kadam and Geluk. Each section opens with a history of the tradition, written by leading scholars of Tibetan Buddhism. These histories not only illuminate the lives of the great masters, but also eloquently articulate the basic precepts of their teachings.The sculptures are then examined within this context—the history and images breathing life into each other.

PORTRAITS OF THE MASTERS POSTCARD BOOK

Portraits of the Masters has marveled its readers in both content and design since its release. Now for the first time the bronze images of Tibetan masters are introduced as a set of 25 stunning postcards.

Beautifully laminated, the postcards are bound as a small booklet and can be detached seamlessly from its spine. It is a ideal gift item for those interested in beautiful spiritual images.

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SEEING LHASABritish Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936–1947

Edited by Clare Harris Tsering ShakyaContributing Authors: Clare Harris, Tsering Shakya and Elizabeth Edwards

During the 1930s and 1940s the British cultivated close political and social relations with members of the Tibetan elite and established a Mission in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Based on

the Pitt Rivers Museum exhibition of the same name, Seeing Lhasa reveals the way in which the city of Lhasa, its palaces, monasteries and mansions, became the backdrop for a social world in which the British and Tibetans interacted. They ate and drank, watched films and played football together and these activities were photographed, painted and filmed as part of the British diplomatic agenda.

This book demonstrates the aesthetic accomplishments of British visitors to Tibet and documents aspects of Tibetan life no longer visible in the city vacated by the Dalai Lama in 1959. It features photographic portraits of many notable Tibetan figures, including members of the Tibetan religious and governmental hierarchies, alongside a unique set of watercolours by the Indian artist Kanwal Krishna, who accompanied the British party to witness the Installation of the 14th Dalai Lama in Lhasa in 1940. This is the first in-depth study of the way in which such images construct a sense of place and determine how future generations may see Lhasa.

The visual record is contextualised with essays by Clare Harris, Tsering Shakya and Elizabeth Edwards. Full details of all the Tibetan photographic collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum are also included.

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Potala PalaceHugh Richardson, c. 1936-1950

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PEARLS OF THE ORIENTAsian Treasures from the Wellcome Library

Edited By Nigel AllanContributing Authors: Nigel Allan Vrej Neressian Nikolaj Serikoff Sergei Tourkin Dominik Wujastyk Jeevan Singh Deol William PruittPeter Nyunt Henry Ginsburg Gyurme DorjeHartmut Walravens Peter F. Kornicki

The Wellcome Library in London preserves one of the major collections in Europe of manuscripts, printed books and picto-rial material relating to Asia. This is largely due to the enthusi-

asm and vision of the American-born pharmacist and philanthropist, Sir Henry Wellcome. Although celebrated as a library devoted to medical history and related topics, the Asian Collections document in text and illustration practically every area of human endeavour found among the many peoples and cultures of the East. The Well-come Trust, an independent research-funding charity originating from Wellcome’s will, supports the Library and its work today as an international resource for the history and understanding of the medicine.

This lavishly illustrated book conveys the richness and diversity of Wellcome’s legacy in a series of studies contributed by experts from the UK, Germany and Russia, all of whom have worked on the Well-come Asian Collections over the last 25 years.

Each chapter reflects a different region of Asia, its peoples and culture, in which something of the variety of the Asian Collections preserved in the Wellcome Library can be appreciated. The different languages and their scripts, the various materials used for writing, the multiplicity of cultural and religious backgrounds and their an-tiquity are exemplified in the Asian Collections. Today they consti-tute a major resource for study and research of Asia’s cultural and social history so beautifully illustrated in this publication.

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BUDDHIST SCULPTURE OF NORTHERN THAILANDCarol Stratton

The art of the Northern kingdoms of Thailand was Buddhist, and the Buddha image was at its core. The purpose of traditional Buddhist art was not to delight the

eye or “decorate,” but to remind, enlighten, and instruct. For many years art historians considered the sculpture of Northern Thailand, or Lan Na, to be a minor tradition. This volume shows that Lan Na sculpture is an enormous body of work beginning with the Mon-Hariphunchai period of the eleventh century, through the Classic period of Lan Na’s Golden Age in the fifteenth century, up until Lan Na’s integration into the rest of Thailand. It is a tradition of surprising diversity positioned alongside the other great Southeast Asian art traditions - the Dvaravati and Sukhothai in Thailand, the Pagan in Burma, and the Khmer in Cambodia.

This comprehensive and attractive reference is divided into four parts: the historical and cultural background; the analysis of Northern Buddha images, including iconography, style, techniques, and dating; the types of Northern Buddha images; and associated Buddhist sculpture, such as footprints and mythical creatures. The Buddha images are classified by style and date, using those images with inscribed dates as the armature around which to cluster the undated statues. The images are analyzed in detail and placed in their historical, cultural, and religious context. Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume is an indispensable reference and guide to Buddha images and other Buddhist sculpture of Northern Thailand.

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Buppha Press is Serindia’s sister imprint focusing on the arts of Southeast Asia, covering Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.

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PATAN MUSEUM The Transformation of a Royal Palace in NepalGötz HagmüllerThe Patan Museum, a former palace of the late Malla dynasty of the Kathmandu Valley, was restored and adapted over a period of 15 years and completed in 1997 with professional and financial assistance from the Austrian Government. Götz Hag-müller, who directed the palace’s transformation into a state-of-the-art museum, presents this process in narrative essays of exploration and discovery. This systhesis of art and setting has resulted in one of South Asia’s most attractive museums.9.75 x 11.5”, 144pp., over 100 color, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-58-X US$55.00

RUTHLESS COMPASSION Wrathful Deities in Early Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Art Rob LinrotheDespite an impressive body of distinguished scholarship on the history of esoteric Buddhism in India, it is only sketchily understood. The author assembles hundreds of works of art, analyzing them formally and stylistically, to determine the chronology of their iconographhic themes. The objects provide a continuous historical record of the evolution of esoteric Buddhist belief and practice—a record that supplements and often challenges the conclusions of exclusively textual histories. 9.25 x 12”, 354pp., 16 color & 221 b/w, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-51-2 US$55.00

KATHMANDU VALLEY PAINTING The Jucker CollectionHugo E. KreijgerFor most lovers of Nepalese art, the Jucker collection will come as a revelation. The core of the collection was assembled during the 1960s in India, with a few well-judged additions in recent years filling in the remaining stylistic and iconographic lacunae. The collection as it stands gives excellent overall view of the painting tradition in the Kathmandu Valley from the thirteenth to the early twentieth century - including sev-eral extremely rare scrolls for which there are no comparable pieces in other private or public collections.9.25 x 12”, 144pp., over 100 color, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-52-0 US$55.00

TIBETAN PAINTING The Jucker CollectionHugo E. KreijgerThis volume presents one hundred of the finest Tibetan thangka paintings from the renowned Jucker Collection. Starting with paintings of the historical Buddha and his emanations and followed by bodhisattvas, historical and mythological figures, protectors of the Buddhist law and tutelary deities, the last part of this publication is devoted to rare Bardo paintings (divinities that appear to the deceased after death), black background scrolls and mandalas. The collection is especially strong in representations of fierce divinities of which thirty are reproduced. The book concludes with important scroll paintings from the Bon tradition. 9.25 x 12”, 192pp., 72 color, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-56-3 US$55.00

THE LHASA ATLAS Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-LarsenLhasa is the most impressive of the few surviving traditional urban centers of Tibet. Including 25 new maps never before published, The Lhasa Atlas surveys the topography, environment, historical development, buildings, and townscape of old Lhasa. It also introduces future plans and discusses some of the issues concerning the safeguarding of the historical townscape in the ongoing process of urban development. 11 x 10.25”, 180pp., 200 color, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-57-1 US$75.00

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THE THAKALI A Himalayan EthnographyMichael VindingThis monograph presents a comprehensive ethnography of the Thakali with par-ticular reference to the Thak Khola vallery of Mustang district, Nepal - the home-land of the Thakali. Based on several years of fieldwork since 1972, it provides a wealth of hitherto unrecorded detail and much insight on Thakali history, culture, and society.7 x 10”, 512pp., 51 color plates, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-50-4 US$45.00

OF RAINBOWS AND CLOUDSThe Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as told to his DaughterAshi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Her Majesty the Queen of BhutanSet in the remote and little-known Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, this biography of Yab Ugyen Dorji as told to his daughter, Her Majesty the Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, provides a fascinating and vivid insight into life and times in that country during this century. Intimate and revealing glimpses of traditinal life in monastic retreats, remote villages, as well as forts and palaces, provide a unique perspective on Bhutan’s history, society and traditional culture.8.75 x 11.25”, 208pp., 80 color plates, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-49-0 US$35.00

ORIENTAL MEDICINE An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing Jan van Alphen & Anthony ArisThe traditional medical systems of Asia evolved over centuries of empirical observa-tion and diagnosis and treatment of disease. Based on a corpus of written material, they are found embedded with the symbols, concepts of the body and world views characterising the historical differences between civilisations. This is the first book to present to both general and specialist readership an illustrated guide to the main codified medical traditions of Asia from the perspective of Western scholars as well as that of physicians actually working today within each system.9.25 x 12”, 272pp., 190 color and 40 b/w, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-36-9 US$35.00

HIMALAYAN ENCHANTMENT An AnthologyFrank Kingdon-WardFrank Kingdon-Ward, the last of the great plant hunters, undertook 25 major expe-ditions over a period of nearly 50 years and collected and numbered more than 23,000 plants. Not only a plant hunter, he was one of the greatest of all Himalayan explorers, filling in what would otherwise remain to this day a blank space on the map. This volume is an anthology of Kingdon-Ward’s best writing on his plant-hunting and geographical exploration in Himalaya.6.5 x 9.5”, 254pp., 16 b/w plates, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-22-9 US$19.95

JAPANESE AGENT IN TIBET My Ten Years of Travel in DisguiseHisao KimuraFascinating and adventurous true story of a Japanese agent in disguise as a Mon-golian pilgrim. After a year’s detention, he continued to Tibet and India where he was recruited by British Intelligence to gather information on Chinese intentions in Eastern Tibet.6.5 x 9.5”, 232pp., 8 b/w plates, Hardcover ISBN 0-906026-24-5 US$19.95

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