The Nyingjei Lam Collection has been updated and the various subject categories have been divided into separate and easy to browse pages.
The collection includes outstanding examples of Tibetan sculpture as well as works from Eastern India, Kashmir and Nepal. A great strength of the collection is the exquisite portrait bronzes. (See Nyingjei Lam on the Asian Art web site).
Subject Categories:
1. Buddhas
2. Indian Teachers
3. Tibetan Teachers
4. Deities
5. Protectors
6. Miscellaneous
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The Tsuglakang Temple at the center of Lhasa is a great repository of works of art from the 8th century up to the present. This page of sculpture exhibits a selection of teachers from most traditions of Tibetan Buddhism in a range of sculptural and artistic styles. Like painting, sculpture can also have unique styles and stylistic traditions created by famous artists and family traditions. (Not all of the images in the Tsuglakang Temple selection have been catalogued at this time).
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The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art was the first museum represented on the Himalayan Art Resources website back in early spring of 1998. Many of the painting descriptions have recently been reviewed and updated. Some identifications have changed, additional links have been added. Painting Sets images have also been added to all compositions belonging to larger painting sets.
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To help organize the Tibet House Museum sculpture collection a new Outline Page has been added.
Due to the large numbers of sculpture and ritual objects in the museum collection the objects have been further divided into eight broad groups for easy viewing. The HAR Search is always available for more in depth and refined searching of the Tibet House Collection:
1. Ritual Objects
2. Book Covers & Pages
3. Stupas
4. Buddhas
5. Bodhisattvas
6. Deities
7. Teachers: Siddhas & Lamas
8. Padmasambhava
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The Tibet House Collection Main Page has been updated and re-organized with added sets pages and a new page for the Miscellanous Paintings.
"Tibet House was established in 1965 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for the purpose of preserving the unique cultural heritage of Tibet at a time when it faced extinction in its homeland, as well as for providing a centre for Tibetan and Buddhist studies".
For an overview of the art holdings of Tibet House see the Tibet House Quick Guide. The collection of paintings have been placed in one large gallery which also serves as the Tibet House Main Page. It is somewhat awkward to navigate because of the size and also because of the sets included.
A separate page has been created for the Miscellaneous Paintings that are not that great in number compared with the sets of paintings. The strength of the Tibet House Collection is the vast number of sets - mostly complete. There is a small Textile Gallery and a separate Sculpture Gallery. Other than identifying each sculptural piece the sculpture has not yet been divided up into type, subject or sets.
Painting Sets:
1. Arhat Set (complete)
2. Avadana Stories Set (complete)
3. 7th Dalai Lama Biography Set (complete)
4. Dalai Lama Incarnation Set (complete)
5. Longdol Lama Set (complete)
6. Mahasiddha Set (incomplete)
7. Padmasambhava & Mahasiddha Set (complete)
8. Panchen Lama Incarnation Set (complete)
9. Shakyamuni Buddha Life Story Set (incomplete)
10. Tsongkapa Life Story Set (complete)
11. Amitayus Set (unknown)
12. Hands & Footprint Paintings (incomplete)
13. Mitra Gyatsa Mandala Painting Set (incomplete)
14. Miscellaneous Paintings Gallery
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The Painting Sets Image continues to be added to all record pages where the single image of a painting belongs to a multiple painting set. In some cases the sets image indicates the exact number of paintings in the complete composition. Sometimes the image is also linked to other paintings from that same set.
Recently Completed Collections with Sets Images:
American Museum of Natural History, New York
The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Also see the Painting Sets Outline and the Painting Sets Glossary.
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"In April 2009, the Alain Bordier Foundation opened the Tibet Museum in the heart of the medieval town of Gruyères in the French speaking part of Switzerland.
The Tibet Museum houses an important collection of Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and ritual objects. It consists of about three hundred objects, mainly originating from Tibet. Among the statues, however, are a number of objects that were manufactured in the ancient Buddhist cultures surrounding Tibet: rare Buddhist sculptures from Nepal, Kashmir, Swat, and other Himalaya regions, in addition to examples from Northern India and Burma (Myanmar). Like other collectors of Tibetan art, Alain Bordier established his collection during the last quarter of the 20th century, when Tibetan refugees brought great numbers of religious objects into exile in India and Nepal. It was the wish of Alain Bordier to share his fascination with as many people as possible and to preserve and hold together these miraculously preserved sacred objects.
For this purpose he has founded the Alain Bordier Foundation to preserve the Buddhist collection and to maintain the Tibet Museum." Ulrich von Schroeder
The Tibet Museum Collection:
- Tibetan Paintings
- Tibetan Sculpture 1
- Tibetan Sculpture 2
- Nepal: Painting & Sculpture
- Swat Region & Kashmir
- North Eastern India & Burma
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The new Wisdom Calendar for 2010 is available from Wisdom Publications. They have not yet been added to the HAR database. This will happen in the next few days. All of the paintings in this years calendar are from a private collection in Europe. Included in the calendar are some excellent examples of interesting iconography and a variety of painting styles. Two of the highlights in this years calendar are a Drigung Kagyu Field of Accumulation (Refuge Field) and Rudrachakrin the last King of Shambhala.
Iconographic Subjects in the 2010 Calendar:
Cover: Manjushri Riding a Lion
January: Wheel of Life from Mongolia
February: Drigung Field of Accumulation (Refuge Feild)
March: Tsongkapa appearing from the Tushita Heaven
April: Amitabha Buddha in the Sukhavati Heaven
May: Chakrasamvara Retinue Figure
June: Vajravarahi Mandala
July: Padmasambhava as Loden Chogse
August: Dralha with Eight Horsemen
September: Vajradhara with Lineage Teachers
October: The Thirty-five Confession Buddhas
November: Rudrachakrin, the Last King of Shambhala
December: Chakrasamvara Mandala
See the Wisdom Calendar Page on HAR
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