Lot 81
W. Filchner, Kumbum Dschamba Ling. Leipzig 1933.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
81
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. 25,6 x 19,2 cm. With a frontispiece, 1 colour plate, 1 folded colour map and 36 plates containing 206 illustrations, mostly based on the author’s photographs, plus 412 sketches in the text. XVI pp., 555 pp. Cloth-bound with title on the front cover and spine.
(Slightly rubbed; the spine cover is torn at the top cap; the joints are loose. A loose flyleaf with traces of mounting. Minimal signs of age and wear.)
It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery dating from the Ming Dynasty, around 1560. Filchner explored the monastery and the surrounding countryside from around 1926. It is regarded as one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
(Slightly rubbed; the spine cover is torn at the top cap; the joints are loose. A loose flyleaf with traces of mounting. Minimal signs of age and wear.)
It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery dating from the Ming Dynasty, around 1560. Filchner explored the monastery and the surrounding countryside from around 1926. It is regarded as one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.