132 pages : 32 cm; "Vol. 58, no.3"--Title page verso.; Introduction / Pratapaditya Pal -- Pipal tree, tonsured monks, and Ushnisha / Gautama Vajracharya -- The representation of the Buddha's birth and death in the Aniconic period / J.E. Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw -- Observations on "The Representation of the Buddha's Birth and Death in the Aniconic Period" / Sonya Rhie Quintanilla -- An unusual Naga-protected Buddha from Thailand / Pratapaditya Pal -- The Naga-protected Buddha in the Norton Simon Museum: further comments / Joyanto K. Sen -- The Karandavyuha Sutra and Buddhist art in 10th-century Cambodia / Hiram Woodward -- Do jewelleries provide chronological clues? A preliminary study of wrathful deities in early Tibetan thankas / Steven Kossak -- A 16th-century Ladakhi school of Buddhist painting / Erberto Lo Bue -- A pilgrim to the Buddhist Himalayas / Jaroslav Poncar -- Index.; "Both spatially and temporally, the scope of this book is expansive. Spatially, the essays cover a vast swathe of Asia stretching from Mathura in India to Thailand in Southeast Asia, including the Himalayan region. Temporally, the period covered is over a millennium from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE. Conceptually, the essays cover issues of iconology and styles of Buddhist art, offer new insights and interpretations of both symbols and images, and explain the interrelationships of Buddhist art and literary traditions of the subcontinent, the Himalaya, and Southeast Asia."--Jacket.; 

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