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narrative decorative art ornamentation inlay public art depiction of animals personal artistic style photography music illustration large scale artwork secular arts famous image Indian convention landscape in art technique movement of artists illuminations sculpture crowned image painting woodblock printing gilding Karma Gadri style lineage depictions drawings portraiture iconography lost wax casting monastic arts movement of art repoussé artistic tradition New Menri style adornment impermanent art
politics drinking imperialism aesthetic communal ritual war cross-cultural collaboration hunting empire warrior pose commemorative modernity burial practice/death rites ritual cultural translation harvest national symbol status Living image medical knowledge trade routes festival importation of technology tourism instruction inscription monumental divination archaistic equestrian reconstruction propagation of knowledge cosmopolitan geomancy healing architecture lineage wellbeing impermanence secular and religious conflation divine rule living tradition dedication astrology dating mass production costume travel patronage
Kagyu tradition yantra Newar Buddhism deity procession visions pilgrimage Jonang tradition emotions Buddhism reincarnation long life Sakya tradition kalachakra protection circumambulation tantra religious affiliation incarnation stories religion and politics Bon tradition sacred image perfection of wisdom Nyingma tradition Daoism sutra karma rebirth initiation/empowerment Enlightenment/Awakening Hindu worship mantras terma consecration Geluk tradition offerings merit
Tangut Kashmiri Tibetan India inspired Manchu Sanskrit Licchavi period Nepalese Mongol Ming dynasty Sikkim Indian Chinese
mandala excavated model relic wall painting touch relic map book arms and armor relief manuscript hanging scroll vajra stupa elaborate throne back monument sets known owners saddle ritual object miraculous image many-doors stupa torana replica luxury object portable shrine
bodhisattva humans student-teacher known artist ghosts wrathful deity yogi emanation/manifestations emperor Qubilai Khan goddess Tara Jibzundamba Jowo Medicine Buddha female deity Buddha Shakyamuni Manjushri Dalai Lama queens named artist Garuda Maya king terton famous person warrior tantric deity embodiment gods biography Rinchen Zangpo Five Buddhas Karmapa Vairochana Padmasambhava arhats traveling artists ruler as deity recipient naga artist makara vajracharyas mahasiddha Avalokiteshvara
ink clay textile metal gold silk paper palm leaves rock wood silver stone
Yuan copper Tibetan Regions iconometry longevity buddha
natural world Kumbum temple site Nalanda Monastery Silk Roads renovated site sacred site vihara Shambhala seat of power mountain fortress hidden land cave monastery Pure Realm
Central Asia
