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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Breashears, David and Audrey Salkeld, The Last Climb

            National Geographic, Washington DC, 1999

Baas, Jacquelin and Mary Jane Jacobs, Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

            University of California Press, 2004

Baker, Ian A.; illustrations, Romio Shrestha, The Tibetan Art of Healing

            Chronicle Books, 1997

Beer, Robert, The Handbook of Tibetan Symbols

            Shambala 2003

Cabot, Mabel, Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China and Mongolia

            Aperture / Peabody Museum Harvard

Fisher, Robert, Art of Tibet

            Thames and Hudson, 1997

Goswamy, B.N. and Caron Smith, Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting

            San Diego Museum of Art, 2005

Huntington, John, and Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss

Columbus Museum of Art, 2003

Jackson, David and Janice, Tibetan Thangka Painting: Methods and Materials        

Snow Lion Publications, 1984

Kapstein, Matthew T., The Tibetans

            Blackwell Publishing, 2006

Karmay, Samten, and Jeff Watt, Bon: The Magic Word, the Indigenous Religion of Tibet

            Rubin Museum of Art, 2007

Linrothe, Rob and Jeff Watt, Demonic Divine: Himalayan Art and Beyond

            Rubin Museum of Art, 2005

Matthiessen, Peter, The Snow Leopard

            Penguin Books, 1978

Mortenson, and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea

            Penguin Books, 2006

Pieper, Josef, Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation

Ignatius, San Francisco

Rajesh, M.N., and Thomas L. Kelley, Himalayan Buddhist Monasteries

            Roli Books, 1997

Rao, Nin, Himalayan Desert

            Roli Books, 2007

Whitfield, Roderick and Susan, and Neville Agnew, Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road

            The Getty Conservation Institute, 2000

Zurick and Julsun Pacheco, Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya

            The University Press of Kentucky, 2006

 

FICTION

Desai, Kiran, The Inheritance of Loss

            Atlantic Monthly Press

Sis, Robert, Tibet Through the Red Box

            Farrar Strauss Giroux 1999

 

Web Resources

ART

The Asia Society: Buddhism and Its Imagery

http://www.asiasocietymuseum.com/buddhist_trade/buddhism.html

The Asia Society: India and the origins of Buddhism

http://www.asiasocietymuseum.com/buddhist_trade/indian.html

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art resources

http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/browse_museum.cfm

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art visual literacy site

http://www.exploreart.org/

Cornell’s Johnson Art Center

http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/edu/buddhist/index.html

The Newark Museum Tibetan and Asian Arts

www.newarkmuseum.org/AsianArt.html

Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/poster/exhibintro.html

King Gesar, A Tibetan Heroic Epic

http://www1.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/10/content_47635_2.htm

Mahabharata

http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-mahabharata1.htm

CONTEMPORARY ART

Shazia Sikander

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sikander/index.html#

Spirituality in art

http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonone/spirituality.html#

Sanford Biggers

http://www.sanfordbiggers.com/

Robert Powell

http://www.robertpowell-paintings.com/exhibitions.html