Painting Traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School

David P Jackson author Christian Luczanits author Kristen Muldowney author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rubin Museum of Art

Published:1st Oct '14

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Painting Traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School cover

Though the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its art is still relatively poorly known, even among Tibetans. With its mother monastery destroyed twice, once in the late 13th century and again during the Great Cultural Revolution, much of the art was lost or dispersed. The iconography of the Drigung School is examined with regard to its three main periods - early, middle, and late - in combination with the distinctive influences of the Sharri, Khyenri, and Driri styles. The book aims elucidate to the painting traditions of the Drigung Kagyu School and investigate lineage depictions and methods of dating, while referring to previously overlooked Tibetan sources, both ancient and modern. The publication and related exhibition also explores the beneficial quality ascribed to the works of art and the elements they contain.

"In this fifth volume of his landmark "Masterworks of Tibetan Painting" series, Jackson continues patiently and systematically to lay the groundwork for a new art history of Tibetan painting—one more firmly supported by specifics of provenance, subject, and style."

* Choi

ISBN: 9780984519071

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2381g

300 pages