Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya

A study of a set of sixteenth-century wall paintings at the Gyapagpa Temple in Nako, a village in India's Himachal Pradesh state.

Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community, subsumed within its religious framework and communal memory. M...