Posts Tagged ‘Tibet’

The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Buddhist Tara, late 17th century.

Detail, Tara. Late 17th century.


Time: until 18.07.10
Place: Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Avenue, New York

Sackler Gallery has opened an extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist shrine room for public display, for the first time.

Acknowledged by practicing Buddhists as a sacred space, this shrine room contains hundreds of superb works of Buddhist art created between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, including bronze sculptures, thangkas (scroll paintings), ritual objects, textile banners, and painted furniture. (more…)

The Schlagintweit brothers

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Hermann Schlagintweit, Sakünlünski (13 May 1826 – 19 January 1882), also known as Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, the great German explorer of Central Asia was the eldest of the five Schlagintweit brothers from Munich. (more…)

The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, and The Salt Lake Tsomoriri in Rupchu, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintweit (1826-1882), A. Schlagintweit (1829-1857) R. Schlagintweit (1833-1885)

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintweit

The Salt Lake Tsomognalari, in Pangkong, Western Tibet. H. Schlagintwei LAKESFrom one of the greatest colour-printed works of the 19th century these two oleographic panoramas evoke the barren yet beautiful landscapes of Tibetan mountain lakes.

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