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DR Christian Luczanits' Outputs (4)

Establishing an Iconography: The Case of Early Tibetan Representations of the Medicine Buddhas (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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).

Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2020)
Thesis
Tan, H. Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gifts have been accumulated, stored and displayed at sacred sites in Myanmar for millennia as they have elsewhere within the Buddhist world. This thesis is the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon known as the ‘pagoda museum’ that existed since at... Read More about Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar.