Title:Alchi: Ladakh's Hidden Buddhist Sanctuary - The Sumtsek
ISBN:0906026385
Author:Roger Goepper
Publisher:Serindia Publications
Publish Year:1996
Edition:First Edition
Cover:Hard Back
Subject:Ladakh | Buddhism | Arts | Coffee Table Books
Language:English
Pages:228
Size:5 x 2 x 17.3 inches
Weight(gms):5005
Price:USD 847.06
On the south bank of the Indus in Ladakh, facing a great trade and invasion route to the north, lies Alchi, a complex of religious buildings with some of the most magnificent Buddhist wall paintings and sculpture to have remained intact for the past 800 years. This book presents an illustrated survey in minutest detail of the wall paintings of Sumtsek, the most impressive of the temples. With 300 color plates of these rare paintings in the Tibeto-Kashmiri style, known to exist only in a handful of other temples in Ladakh and western Tibet.
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