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Jokhang: Tibet's most sacred Buddhist temple

Also Known As: Tibet's most sacred Buddhist temple

by  Gyurme Dorje

Description

Lying at the center of an ancient network of Buddhist temples in the Great Temple of Lhasa, the Jokhang Temple is the heart of spiritual and economic life in Tibet. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is the atmospheric focal point of Lhasa, from which bustling narrow lanes of commerce radiate outward in all directions

Table Of Contents

  • Personal reminiscences of the great temple: an inteview with his holiness the dalai lama
  • Gyurme Dorje zhakabpa's inventory to the great temple of lhasa
  • The original construction of the great temple
  • Later phases of restoration and extension
  • The chapels of the ground floor
  • The chapels of the middle floor
  • The sridevi turret and chapels of the top floor
  • The gilded roofs of the great temple
  • The ground floor annex
  • Murals of the great courtyard and the inner walkway
  • The middle floor annex: private apartments and government offices
  • The top floor annex: palace of the dalai lama
  • Plans of the great temple
  • Tashi tsering jowo Sakyamuni
  • Heather stoddard from rasa to lhasa
  • The geomantic stones of the jokhang
  • The first monlam chenmo
  • The early wall pintings
  • Andre alexander the lhasa jokhang: an indian vihara in tibet
  • 108 bronzes from the Jokhang Repository

Subject

Religion / History / Buddhist temples / Buddhism / Tibet (China)

Details

Published London : New York : Editions Hansjorg Mayer ; distributed in the United states and Canada by Thames & Hudson, 2010
Language English
Material 288 p.
ISBN 0500976929 / 9780500976920
Location
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack2
In Process - TCDC Bangkok Transit

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