Arts and sciences. A personal perspective of Tibetan painting

Chimia

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 900-914

  Ernst, Richard R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arts and sciences; Dating of paintings; Pigment analysis; Tibetan Buddhism; Tibetan thangkas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649611     PISSN: 00094293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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