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The Dorje Ta'og Main Page has been updated with additional images.

Fake Art in the field of Himalayan Style art is a very controversial subject with many differing opinions. On this gallery page we will try and bring up some of the larger questions.

A separate page has been added for Painting: Copies & Facsimiles with additional links and images added.

A separate page has been added for Painting: Confusions & Controversies with additional links and images added to the relevant linked pages.

A page has been added for paintings that have had certain types of repairs due to damage over the centuries. The three examples below have all had registers removed or added.

A Pilgrimage Art Main Page has been added. The page includes links to the five principal types: Cityscapes, Holy Mountains & Sacred Sites, depictions of the Lhasa Jowo, pilgrimage paintings for Newar Merchants and Temple Shop Art.

A masterworks page for Hayagriva Sculpture has been added. Also see the Masterworks Main Page.

The Hayagriva Painting Masterworks Page has been updated with additional images.

A sculpture set carved from rhinoceros horn and depicting the early Kagyu Lineage has been added. It is also believed that the artist was Choying Dorje, the 10th Karmapa.

A page has been added that discusses Name Inscriptions on both painting and sculpture that have been either misidentified or added at a later time.

In Tibet and Nepal there were always four very famous and original Pagpa Lokeshvara sculpture. See the story of creation of the sculpture.

A page has been created for the Rato Macchendranath Pagpa Lokeshvara sculpture and paintings. The page has been linked to the other three famous Pagpa Lokeshvara sculpture.

The Seto Macchendranath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal, has been added and linked to the other three famous Pagpa Lokeshvara sculpture.

A page for the Indian Adept (mahasiddha) Maitripa has been added and linked to the Mahasiddha Main Page.

Problems in Dating Nepalese Metal Sculpture: Three Images of Vishnu (corrected). "In the absence of many inscribed and dated Nepalese metal sculptures older than the late 15th century - the published corpus until very recently contained only six examples[1] - historians of Nepalese art have of necessity had to fall back on careful stylistic analysis as the only alternative open to them in their attempts to arrive at a reliable chronology of the development of Nepalese art." (Read more at www.asianart.com).

A page depicting the forms of Mahakala described in the Fifty Chapter Mahakala Tantra has been added and linked to the Mahakala Main Page.

The Drums in Himalayan Art Page has been updated.

A page for 11th century Tibetan sculpture, Monastic Period, Nepalese Schools has been added and linked to the Sculpture: Figurative Art Main Page.

A page depicting Magical Scripts has been added and linked to the Calligraphy and Poetry Page.

A page has been added to exhibit the Rare and Unusual Forms of Mahakala. Also see the Mahakala Main Page.