Pearl of the Snowlands : Buddhist printing from the Derge Parkhang

Resource Information

The work Pearl of the Snowlands : Buddhist printing from the Derge Parkhang represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Pearl of the Snowlands : Buddhist printing from the Derge Parkhang

Title remainder

Buddhist printing from the Derge Parkhang

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Dowdey, Clifton Meador

Creator

• Dowdey, Patrick,

Contributor

• Meador, Clifton,
• Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.), Center for Book & Paper Arts,
• Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies,

Author

• Meador, Clifton,
• Dowdey, Patrick,

Host institution

• Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies,
• Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.), Center for Book & Paper Arts,

Subject

• Buddhist art
• Buddhist art -- China | Tibet Autonomous Region
• Buddhist art -- Exhibitions
• China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
• Derge Parkhang (Tibet)
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Printing -- China | Tibet Autonomous Region -- History
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Pictorial works
• Block books, Tibetan -- Exhibitions
• Book industries and trade -- China | Tibet Autonomous Region

Genre

• Pictorial works
• Illustrated works
• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Language

eng

Summary

The Derge Parkhang (also called the Derge Sutra Printing Temple) is one of the foremost cultural, social, religious and historical institutions in Tibet. Founded in 1729 by Tenba Tsering, the fortieth King of Derge (1678-1739), the Derge Parkhang is a repository for more than 300,000 woodblocks and an active center for the publication of sutra, commentaries, tetra, and histories of Tibetan Traditional Buddhism. It is also home to a significant collection of woodblocks for printing thangka, prayer flags, mandala, and other spiritual images. Located on present-day Sichuan's border with the Tibetan Autonomous Region in the area called Kham or Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the Derge Parkhang is the only survivor of the great historic Tibetan printing temples

Member of

• Cynthia Marsh Collection of Graphic and Book Arts (Bowdoin College Library)

Cataloging source

NOG

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

catalogs