Author: GETTY, Alice.
Title: The Gods of Northern Buddhism. Their history, iconography and progressive evolution through the northern Buddhist countries.
Description: Oxford University Press 1914. Quarto, very good in publisher's gilt cloth; lii,196pp, 65 plates (nine colour, with printed tissue guards) and a colour diagram. ¶ First edition and an elegant book. A field still in its 'infancy' though Getty anticipates at "any moment, however, a flood of light" when Mr Ekai Kawaguchi, who spent years disguised as a Chinese monk, translates the 'valuable manuscripts which he succeeded in carrying out of Tibet'. It was well received. Coomaraswamy spent no more than a couple of thousand words setting the record straight and correcting errors before finishing with a most handsome commendation: ''Miss Getty's work has been compiled with the utmost care, and is of quite remarkable accuracy. It is a work of true scholarship'' (Burlington Magazine; v27n148; 1915). Her last effort was a contribution to a festschrift for Coomaraswamy she completed two days before her death in 1946.
Keywords: ethnology ethnography religion buddhism art sculpture iconography south asia India Japan China Tibet history
Title: The Gods of Northern Buddhism. Their history, iconography and progressive evolution through the northern Buddhist countries.
Description: Oxford University Press 1914. Quarto, very good in publisher's gilt cloth; lii,196pp, 65 plates (nine colour, with printed tissue guards) and a colour diagram. ¶ First edition and an elegant book. A field still in its 'infancy' though Getty anticipates at "any moment, however, a flood of light" when Mr Ekai Kawaguchi, who spent years disguised as a Chinese monk, translates the 'valuable manuscripts which he succeeded in carrying out of Tibet'. It was well received. Coomaraswamy spent no more than a couple of thousand words setting the record straight and correcting errors before finishing with a most handsome commendation: ''Miss Getty's work has been compiled with the utmost care, and is of quite remarkable accuracy. It is a work of true scholarship'' (Burlington Magazine; v27n148; 1915). Her last effort was a contribution to a festschrift for Coomaraswamy she completed two days before her death in 1946.
Keywords: ethnology ethnography religion buddhism art sculpture iconography south asia India Japan China Tibet history
Price: AUD 500.00 = appr. US$ 345.94 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 7954
- Book number: 7954