Alchi: The Living Heritage of Ladakh: 1000 Years of Buddhist Art
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8190818104, 9788190818100
Length
xii+40p., Color Plates; 28cm.
Subjects
The Monasteries of Ladakh have been sanctuaries of Buddhist learning as well as repositories of Buddhist arts and artifacts, both imported and indigenously created. In ancient times when Kashmir was the Buddhist land, Buddhism reached Ladakh and, ever since Buddhism continues uninterruptedly there even after its disappearance from Kashmir and the setbacks it suffered in Tibet, the two main regions of Buddhist knowledge and arts in the Himalayas. The existing ...
