NAKO
Research and Conservation in the Western Himalayas
Contributions by Gabriela Krist Contributions by Deborah Klimburg-Salter Contributions by Tatjana Bayerova Contributions by Christian Luczanits Contributions by Natasha Kimmet Contributions by Romi Khosla Contributions by Melissa R. Kerin Contributions by Gerald Kozicz Contributions by Christiane Kalantari Contributions by Petra Müller Contributions by Verena Ziegler Contributions by Kathrin Maria Schmidt Contributions by Andrea Loseries Contributions by Marie Gruber Edited by Gabriela Krist
Hardback (Published)
(October 2016)
ISBN: 9783205202677
10 x 11.46 inches
Price: $113.00
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The settlement of Nako, at 3,700 m altitude in Upper Kinnaur, North India, and close to the Tibetan border was once part of the Western Tibetan Purang-Guge Kingdom. Today it is a remarkable well preserved mountainous village with living Buddhist cultural heritage. Apart from its breath-taking cultural landscape setting embedded in the Himalayan mountains, it is important for its temple complex dating from the 12th century which is considered as an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism, not anymore preserved in Tibet today. In the footsteps of the famous Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci, who explored the region in 1933, a group of scholars from various Austrian universities started a transdisciplinary long-term research project at Nako in the 1980s which led to the preservation and model-like conservation of its temples and artworks.
The settlement of Nako, at 3,700 m altitude in Upper Kinnaur, North India, and close to the Tibetan border was once part of the Western Tibetan Purang-Guge Kingdom. Today it is a remarkable well preserved mountainous village with living Buddhist cultural heritage. Apart from its breath-taking cultural landscape setting embedded in the Himalayan mountains, it is important for its temple complex dating from the 12th century which is considered as an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism, not anymore preserved in Tibet today. In the footsteps of the famous Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci, who explored the region in 1933, a group of scholars from various Austrian universities started a transdisciplinary long-term research project at Nako in the 1980s which led to the preservation and model-like conservation of its temples and artworks.
- Contributions by Gabriela Krist
- Contributions by Deborah Klimburg-Salter
- Contributions by Tatjana Bayerova
- Contributions by Christian Luczanits
- Contributions by Natasha Kimmet
- Contributions by Romi Khosla
- Contributions by Melissa R. Kerin
- Contributions by Gerald Kozicz
- Contributions by Christiane Kalantari
- Contributions by Petra Müller
- Contributions by Verena Ziegler
- Contributions by Kathrin Maria Schmidt
- Contributions by Andrea Loseries
- Contributions by Marie Gruber
- Edited by Gabriela Krist
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