HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE HIMALAYAS: Tibetan Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo by Amy Heller Izu ISBN: 9781932476859

ISBN: 9781932476859

Prince Narisaranuvattiwongse (1863-1947) was a son of H

Featuring an interview with Loel Guinness and a personal account of his engagement with the project

Hardcover: 560 pages

This book tells the story of the events that led up to that encounter and presents the results of Seracini’s remarkable diagnostic study

HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE HIMALAYAS: Tibetan Manuscripts, Paintings and Sculptures of Dolpo by Amy Heller Izu ISBN: 9781932476859In 1999, a hidden library was found in the Nesar Temple at a remote village of Bicher in Dolpo, Nepal. It contains more than six hundred volumes of Tibetan manuscripts, ranging in date from the late 11th to the early 16th century. This library in many ways constitutes a cultural history of Dolpo in this period thanks to some sixty volumes with historical prefaces explaining the commission of the manuscripts for the Nesar Temple, while more than one