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DR Christian Luczanits' Outputs (32)

Establishing an Iconography: The Case of Early Tibetan Representations of the Medicine Buddhas (2020)
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Luczanits, C. (2020). Establishing an Iconography: The Case of Early Tibetan Representations of the Medicine Buddhas

Taking the depictions of the Medicine Buddhas in the iconographic programme of a fourteenth century Sūtra Collection at Namgyal Monastery, Upper Mustang, as a point of departure, this study surveys roughly contemporaneous representations of the same... Read More about Establishing an Iconography: The Case of Early Tibetan Representations of the Medicine Buddhas.

From Tabo to Alchi: Revisiting Early Western Himalayan Art (2020)
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Luczanits, C. (2020). From Tabo to Alchi: Revisiting Early Western Himalayan Art. Orientations (Hong Kong), 51(5), 36-47

In 2004, I published a book on early western Himalayan monuments based on a consideration of the main sculptures in the temples, which are commonly made of clay (Luczanits, 2004). What distinguishes this work is the attempt to present a relative chro... Read More about From Tabo to Alchi: Revisiting Early Western Himalayan Art.

Investigations of a Gandharan stucco head of the Buddha at the Victoria and Albert Museum (IM.3-1931) (2020)
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Verri, G., Luczanits, C., Borges, V., Barnard, N., & Clarke, J. (2020). Investigations of a Gandharan stucco head of the Buddha at the Victoria and Albert Museum (IM.3-1931). Techné (Paris), 48, 136-149. https://doi.org/10.4000/techne.2792

This study presents the results of a technical and art historical study of an important Gandharan head from the Victoria and Albert Museum. For several years, the head has played an important role in the history of Gandharan art, because of its high... Read More about Investigations of a Gandharan stucco head of the Buddha at the Victoria and Albert Museum (IM.3-1931).

Revival and renaissance in Tibetan art: imagining Kashmir and Nepal in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries (2018)
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Luczanits, C. (2018). Revival and renaissance in Tibetan art: imagining Kashmir and Nepal in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 52, 93-131

Both Kashmir and Nepal have been sources of inspiration throughout the history of Tibetan art. The art of Kashmir was adopted and adapted in the Purang-Guge Kingdom (circa 950–1100 CE) and its successors, and Nepalese artists were instrumental in the... Read More about Revival and renaissance in Tibetan art: imagining Kashmir and Nepal in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Review: Siudmak, John. The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and its Influences. Vol. 28, Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2, South Asia. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. (2014)
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Luczanits, C. (2014). Review: Siudmak, John. The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and its Influences. Vol. 28, Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2, South Asia. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77(3), 600-601. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X14000731

The Cave of Great Adepts (2014)
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Luczanits, C. (2014). The Cave of Great Adepts. Orientations (Hong Kong), 45(5), 50-61

Review: Bühnemann, Gudrun. The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities. Vol. I: The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi – Vol. II: The Pantheons of the Prapañcasāra and the Śāradātilaka. Gonda Indolocical Studies IX. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2000/2001. (2011)
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Luczanits, C. (2011). Review: Bühnemann, Gudrun. The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities. Vol. I: The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi – Vol. II: The Pantheons of the Prapañcasāra and the Śāradātilaka. Gonda Indolocical Studies IX. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2000/2001. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 106(4/5), 338-341. https://doi.org/10.1524/olzg.2011.0039

Review: Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas: Essays on History, Literature, Archaeology and Art. Piats 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, vol. 10/8 by Amy Heller and Giacomella Orofino (2009)
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Luczanits, C. (2009). Review: Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas: Essays on History, Literature, Archaeology and Art. Piats 2003: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003. Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, vol. 10/8 by Amy Heller and Giacomella Orofino. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 129(3), 503-505

In the Blazing Light of Tibet (2008)
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Luczanits, C. (2008). In the Blazing Light of Tibet. Orientations (Hong Kong), 39(6), 80-84

On photographs taken by F. Bailey Vanderhoef and Bill Cummings in Tibet in 1938