Khosla, RomiBiblio.com
Romi KhoslaBiblio.com
Buddhist Monasteries in the Western Himalaya
1979ref. 20798Kathmandu Nepal: Ratna Pustak Bhandar. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xiv 147 1 blank pages 12 colour illustrations on 6 plate leaves 198 black and white photographic illustrations on plate leaves 2 folding. 35 black-and-white drawings 4 on 2 folding plate leaves. Green coarse weave cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 245 x 179mm. Series: Bibliotheca Himalayica Series III Volume 13. "Until very recently when Ladakh was opened up for tourists the whole of the Buddhist borderland between Tibet and India with the exception of Nepal was comparatively difficult to approach. The specific regions touched upon in the present study are in any case hardly hospitable places for casual visitors. The high altitude the difficult means of transport added to the rigours of the permit system in force have ensured their relative isolation. However determined and intrepid scholars have managed to wander up and down the valleys of the Western Himalaya and have published extremely valuable material on the region and this present work has relied on the published works of Cunningham Francke Tucci Goetz Snellgrove and Skorupski for guidance. The scope of this works has been defined by those places that it was possible to visit on three separate expeditions into Lahoul Spiti and Ladakh between the period 1968-1977 and it presents a selected collection of the photographs and measured data that was collected on those occasions." - from the Preface. . Ratna Pustak Bhandar hardcover
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