Awards

• Winner of Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Prize for the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies.
• Winner of Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Prize for the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies.

Overview

Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist community, subsumed within its religious framework and communal memory. Melissa Kerin traces the devotional, political, and artistic histories that have influenced the paintings' production and reception over the centuries of their use. Her interdisciplinary approach combines art historical methods with inscriptional translation, ethnographic documentation, and theoretical inquiry to understand religious images in context.

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A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods--visual, linguistic and ethnographic--to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about.... [A] pleasure to read. Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina--Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina

A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods--visual, linguistic and ethnographic--to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about... [A] pleasure to read. - Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina Kerin's methodology of sympathetically driven reception theory employed in the field, close observation, and the transcription and translation of on-site inscriptions, reveals striking insights into the motivations of the original builders and contemporary viewers alike... This work has something to say within an expanding field that needs to hear it. It is the result of many years of challenging fieldwork, daunting linguistic study, a great deal of careful thought, and painstaking writing. - Rob Linrothe, Northwestern University

A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods-visual, linguistic and ethnographic-to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about... [A] pleasure to read. -Pika Ghosh, author of Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

Author Information

Melissa R. Kerin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University.

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