Dating Tibetan Art
Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne
Edited by Ingrid Kreide-Damani By (author) Roger Goepper By (author) Heather Stoddard
Hardback (Published)
(December 2003)
ISBN: 9783895003554
6.69 x 9.45 inches
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During the past twelve years, international trade in Tibetan art has enjoyed an unprecedented upswing, as buyer demand has confronted limited supply. Prices have risen to dizzying heights, in line with the maxim: “The older the piece, the higher the price.”
During the past twelve years, international trade in Tibetan art has enjoyed an unprecedented upswing, as buyer demand has confronted limited supply. Prices have risen to dizzying heights, in line with the maxim: “The older the piece, the higher the price.” In order to analyze, whether such a development in prices is academically justified, and to establish transparency, Lempertz Auction House of Cologne, Germany, invited nine leading European scholars to present papers on research methods and problems relating to the dating of Tibetan art. The meeting, held amid a circle of collectors and connoisseurs took place on November 17th to 18th, 2001 at the Cologne Museum for East Asian Art and at Lempertz Auction House. This publication presents the revised papers of seven of the nine speakers at the Lempertz Symposium. Their diverging points of view as to the possibilities of dating of Tibetan art are based on different scholarly approaches and reflect the freedom of academic research: The practicing Buddhist and reincarnate high lama Loden Sherap Dagyab Rinpoche subjects the supposedly universal validity of a Western understanding of art to critical examination and confronts the Western view with a different interpretation of reality. Roger Goepper’s dating of Sumtsek in Alchi (questioned by Lionel Fournier 2001) is corroborated by new arguments from Goepper himself and from Christian Luczanits. Heather Stoddard presents historical and political facts that place stylistic developments within West-Tibetan art in a new, hitherto unconsidered light. Martin Brauen’s reconstruction of an unresolved Swiss court case was a challenge for David Jackson to test the reliability of his own method of dating Tibetan art and to supplement his contribution in this publication accordingly. Jane Casey Singer’s scholarly detective work documents just how difficult it is to establish the dating of a work of art with absolute certainty. The intention of the Lempertz Symposium was to ignite open discussion. Further comments on opinions and conclusions expressed in this book are welcome.
- Edited by Ingrid Kreide-Damani
- By (author) Roger Goepper
- By (author) Heather Stoddard
„Es ist selbstverständlich, dass die teilweise sehr unterschiedlichen Hintergründe der Autoren zu Divergenzen führen müssen, die indessen nützlich für die Gesamtschau und den Leser sind. Der Standpunkt eines Rinpoche kann nicht mit dem eines Martin Brauen oder Jane Singer verglichen werden, doch wurde die Absicht des Lempertz-Symposiums, eine offene Diskussion auszulösen, gerade damit erreicht.“<br/><br/>In: Nepal Information. 38 (2004). Nr. 93. <br/><br/>--------------------------<br/><br/>„At any rate the contributions to this book, all displaying sound scholarship of one sor or another, will provide much food for thought on the question, as well as plenty which is of intrinsic academic if not monetary value on Tibetan painting and sculpture.“<br/><br/>In: Central and Inner Asia. 68/3.
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Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism
A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries
Shakya-mchog-ldan, Mahapandita des Klosters gSer-mdog-can
Leben und Werk nach den tibetischen Quellen
The Illuminating Mirror
Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Sørensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Scribes, Texts, and Rituals in Early Tibet and Dunhuang
Proceedings of the Third Old Tibetan Studies Panel held at the Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver 2010
Die Hagiographie des La phyi ba Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan (1372 bis 1437)
Eine Studie über das Leben eines tibetischen Heiligen
Red mda’ ba. Buddhist Yogi-Scholar of the Fourteenth Century
The Forgotten Reviver of Madhyamaka Philosophy in Tibet
Die Statue und der Tempel des Arya Va-ti bzang-po
Ein Beitrag zu Geschichte und Geographie des tibetischen Buddhismus
Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogacara
Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniscayasamgrahani der Yogacarabhumi
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