Illuminations are commonly found on the beginning pages of Nepalese, Tibetan and Mongolian manuscript texts. Sometimes these texts will have writing one side of a folio page and illustrations on the other continuing through to the end of the manuscript.


Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Big! Himalayan Art
Rubin Museum of Art, New York

What is Tibetan Art?
Trammel Crow, Texas

LINKS

The Tibet Album
more than 6000 photographs

Snowlions Dancing on Clouds
Stylization and the Tibetan Carpet
by Thomas L. Guta

Auspicious Carpets: A Tibetan View of Aesthetics
by by Ted Worcester

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Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Dallas Museum, Texas

Private Collections (Main Page)

Rubin Museum of Art (Gallery IV Updated)

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Stupas in Art

Illuminated Manuscripts

Bardo Deities

Guruyoga Depictions

Mountain Deities

Wisdom Deities

Wealth Deities

Symbol Sets