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FYI The DVD is not in stock yet at the Brown University Bookstore, but it will include TIFFs of the images. Price $12, plus $4 handling U.S., $5 Canada, and $8 Europe, India, and Japan. This is a non-profit venture. Norine Duncan Brown University ________________________________________________________________________ Tibetan Buddhist Wall Paintings of Mustang, Nepal. Marcia R. Lieberman, Philip Lieberman, Lama Ngawang Jorden, Brown University and the University of Chicago. This electronic publication is a photographic survey of the wall paintings of three gompas or monastery-temples of Mustang, an ethnically and culturally Tibetan district in northwestern Nepal, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. This material, both explanatory text and photographs, appears on both this DVD and also on the Brown University Web site, under the URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/BuddhistTempleArt. Tibetan art is an expression of the Buddhist perception of fundamental reality through visual means. The converse of the Western concept of illustration, this art of the mind, of unforgettable energy and beauty, is intrinsic to Buddhist religious practice. The 15th-century wall paintings of Jampa and Thubchen gompa of Lo Monthang are rare surviving exemplars of the classical period of Tibetan art. The even earlier paintings of Luri gompa reflect Indian and Kashmiri influence. The text that accompanies these images includes a discussion of the basic concepts of Tibetan Buddhism and a guide to understanding Tibetan art, with a discussion of its iconography and symbolic code. It includes descriptions of the three gompas featured here and discussion of their paintings, with additional detailed information in two appendices. Included along with photographic images of the wall paintings, are photographs of Mustang's landscape and its people. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]