Cloth
1998 · New York
by Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998. First American edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket.. 279 pp. Bibliography. Illus. with 150 color photos and 90 b/w photos & drawings. 4to. Signed by the author on the title page. Describes the art, iconography, and rituals of The Tabo Gompa, a Buddhist monastery second in importance only to the Tholing Gompa in Tibet, developed as an advanced centre for learning (by Lotsawa Rinchen Tsang Po, the king of the western Himalayan Kingdom of Guge), and one of the masterpieces of Indian and Tibetan art. (Inventory #: 30183)