Lot 80
W. Filchner, Kumbum Dschamba Ling. Leipzig 1933.
Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot:
80
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Wilhelm Filchner
Filchner, Wilhelm: Kumbum Dschamba Ling. Das Kloster der hunderttausend Bilder Maitreyas. Ein Ausschnitt aus Leben und Lehre des heutigen Lamaismus. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1933. 25,9 x 19,2 cm. With a frontispiece, 1 color plate, 1 folded color map, and 36 plates containing 206 illustrations, mostly based on the author’s photographs, plus 412 sketches in the text. XVI pp., 555 pp. Original brown linen binding with embossed title and spine title in dark brown. Purple head edge. White illustrated dust jacket.
(The dust jacket is discolored and has a few missing pieces. The inner fold is torn.)
It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery dating from the Ming Dynasty, around 1560. Filchner explored the monastery and the surrounding countryside beginning around 1926. It is considered one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The dust jacket is adorned with the Namtschuwangdan, or Kalachakra Mantra, a protective symbol of Tantric Buddhism.
(The dust jacket is discolored and has a few missing pieces. The inner fold is torn.)
It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery dating from the Ming Dynasty, around 1560. Filchner explored the monastery and the surrounding countryside beginning around 1926. It is considered one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The dust jacket is adorned with the Namtschuwangdan, or Kalachakra Mantra, a protective symbol of Tantric Buddhism.