Clay Sculpture

This page collects the links to the picture galleries that complement the publication:

• Buddhist Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, late 10th to early 13th centuries. Chicago, Serindia 2004.
  > http://www.serindia.com/item.cfm/143

They are arranged according the hypothetical chronology of the sculptures proposed in the book. Links to place or monument names lead to the short texts introducing them collected under Sites.

• The cella group of sculptures in the Main Temple of Tabo, Spiti, Himachal Pradesh (164 photographs).
• The clay sculptures of Ropa.
• The clay sculptures of the three dimensional mandala in the Tabo Assembly Hall in two galleries:
  • The Assembly Hall Gallery shows the Assembly Hall and its sculptures in general views.
  • The Mandala Sculpture Gallery contains the complete documentation of the clay sculptures there (468 photographs).

12th Century West Tibetan Monuments

• The clay sculptures of the Translator's Temple in Nako, Kinnaur.
• The four-fold Vairocana at Lalung, Spiti.
• The sculptures of the Upper Temple at Nako.
• The sculptures of the Serkhang at Lalung.
• The fragmentary sculptures of the village temple at Gumrang, Lahaul.

The Alchi Group of Monuments

• The clay sculptures and paintings in the apse of the Main Temple at Alchi, Ladakh.
• The sculptures of the Vairocana temple at Mangyu, Ladakh.
• The four-armed Maitreya at Mangyu.
• The mandala sculpture in the niche of the Assembly Hall at Sumda, Ladakh.
• The sculptures of the Alchi Sumtseg
• The sculptures of the Manjushri Temple at Alchi
• The two Bodhisattva sculptures of Sumda.
• The two-armed Maitreya at Mangyu.
• The sculptures of the Mangyu Four-Image Chörten.