Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)

142 lojda, klimburg-salter and strinu they also owned estates in Guge, Cogla, and Maryul (Ladakh).40 They were also important in ...

the tibetan himalayan style 143 grated into the Buddhist pantheon as protective deities (fig. 4.5).44 As already noted, pan-Indi ...

144 lojda, klimburg-salter and strinu and social hierarchy where the local princes (North wall) also have a promi- nent place.47 ...

the tibetan himalayan style 145 associated with local Tibetan patronage. A recent study demonstrates that the Tibetan Himalayan ...

146 lojda, klimburg-salter and strinu fragmentation, the descendants of these Tibetan communities developed diverse cultural ide ...

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148 linrothe Map 5.1 Early stone sculptures in Purig, the Suru Valley, and Zangskar, Western Himalayas. ...

origins of the kashmiri style 149 began reorienting its own visual culture towards an Islamic Persianate horizon, in the fourtee ...

150 linrothe home. In the course of this essay, we will examine the first of these sources of inspiration, the monumental cliff ...

origins of the kashmiri style 151 the Dras river upsteam of its prayag (auspicious confluence) with the Wakha and Suru rivers, g ...

152 linrothe drawing as well.11 It is clear from comparing various photographs that the areas surrounding both sides of the head ...

origins of the kashmiri style 153 Figure 5.1 Four-armed Maitreya, stone, ht. 177.8 cm, ca. 7th–8th c. Dras, Kargil District, J & ...

154 linrothe The vase the Maitreya holds is of more than passing interest (fig. 5.2). The sculptor has gone beyond the simple ic ...

origins of the kashmiri style 155 Figure 5.4 ‘Donor panel,’ stone, Avantisvāmin Temple, Kashmir, 9th c. Photo: Rob Linrothe, 201 ...

156 linrothe silver ‘“bird-headed ewers’ ” such as the one excavated from a tomb dated 569 in Ningxia, Western China.14 These we ...

origins of the kashmiri style 157 The Dras sculpture’s Kashmiri origin is not in question, given the inscrip- tions, the iconogr ...

158 linrothe Figure 5.5 Four-armed Hindu deity, Mārtāṇḍa Temple, Kashmir, 8th c. Photo: Rob Linrothe, 2011. ...

origins of the kashmiri style 159 the chronicles of Ladakh, the ancient boundary between Ladakh and Kashmir was at La-rtsa, and ...

160 linrothe to B. K. Kaul Deambi, former Director of the Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir University, that is was “inci ...

origins of the kashmiri style 161 have stood either literally at the edge of their territory, beyond which were independent loca ...