HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE HIMALAYAS: Tibetan Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo by Amy Heller Izu Through the knowing eye of

Through the knowing eye of the artist

Size: 19 x 26 cm

There was no art museum

Hardcover: 560 pages

HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE HIMALAYAS: Tibetan Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo by Amy Heller Izu Through the knowing eye ofIn 1999, a hidden library was found in the Nesar Temple at a remote village of Bicher in Dolpo, Nepal. It contains more than six hundred volumes of Tibetan manuscripts, ranging in date from the late 11th to the early 16th century. This library in many ways constitutes a cultural history of Dolpo in this period thanks to some sixty volumes with historical prefaces explaining the commission of the manuscripts for the Nesar Temple, while more than one