Tibet

Dating Tibetan Art

Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne

17 x 24 cm, 144 p., hardback
35.00 €
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During the past twelve years, international trade in Tibetan art has enjoyed an unprecedented upswing, as buyer demand has confronted limited supply. Prices have risen to dizzying heights, in line with the maxim: “The older the piece, the higher the …

Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism

A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries

17 x 24 cm, 596 p., cloth
58.00 €
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Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All masters maintained the vajrayana or tantric path to be superior to the …