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This beautifully designed volume is the first to celebrate the museum's broad and eclectic holdings, including Old Masters, photography and works on paper, American and European paintings, 20th-century works and an exciting new contemporary collection, as well objects, artefacts, and archaeological fragments from world cultures.

Tibetan Manuscripts Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo. The value of the exciting discovery of new manuscripts at a temple in Dolpo in Nepal is revealed for the first time in this book, filling the lacunae in our understanding of the dissemination of Buddhism in the region and its artistic legacy.

Recent archaeological discoveries and scientific research especially focussed on western Tibet and the western Himalayas have resulted in a remarkable redefinition of the historical and cultural processes of the entire Indo-Tibetan civilisation. The present volume reflects these sometimes startling new insights for the first time, covering the wide time range from the Zhang zhung period up to the 20th century, spanning secular, religious and e...