Links to Web Resources
Rubin Museum of Art Web Resources
Rubin Museum of Art Gallery Acticities
Rubin Museum of Art: ExploreArt
NEH-sponsored interactive database utilizing a global humanities approach to explore universal themes in Himalayan art.
Web Resources on the Arts and Cultures of the Himalayas
The Art Institute of Chicago
Art of Asia, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Asia for Educators (Columbia University)
An excellent website with contributions from some of the top Asia scholars at Columbia and other universities. With timelines, reading lists, and curriculum integration charts, the site also has interactive units with primary source images and titles such as The Mongols in World History and Tale of Genji. The site is focused mostly on East Asia and is appropriate for those teaching upper secondary school or college prep.
Asian Art Museum, Chong Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
Digital Himalaya
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The Government of Tibet in Exile
Himalayan Art Resources
Created by the Donald and Shelley Rubin Foundation in 1997 Himalayan Art Resources features information on many works of art in the collection at the Rubin Museum of Art as well as many resources for learning about Himalayan art.
Journey to the East
Portals in the Asian Division, Library of Congress
Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
This document keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Tibetan studies.
Bibliography for Teachers
Avedon, John F. The Buddha’s Art of Healing. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.
Beer, Robert. The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Blurton, Richard T. Hindu Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Crossman, Sylvie, and Jean-Pierre Barou. Tibetan Mandala: Art and Practice. Connecticut: Konecky and Konecky, 1995.
Heller, Amy. Tibetan Art. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book S.p.A., 1999.
Huntington, John, and Dina Bangdel. The Circle of Bliss. Buddhist Meditational Art. Columbus, OH: The Columbus Museum of Art and Serindia Publications, 2003.
Huntington, Susan L. The Art Of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. With contributions by John C. Huntington. Trumbull, CT: John Weatherhill, Inc. 1985.
Huntington, Susan L., and John C. Huntington. Leaves From the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India (8th–12th centuries) and Its International Legacy. Dayton: The Dayton Art Institute, 1990.
Hutt, Michael. Nepal. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley. Boston: Shambhala, 1995.
Huyler, Stephen. Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Man and His Symbols. London: Aldus Books Limited, 1964.
Jackson, David. A History of Tibetan Painting. The Great Tibetan Painters and Their Traditions. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996.
Jackson, David P., and Janice A. Jackson. Tibetan Thangka Painting: Methods and Materials. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1984.
Kossak, Steven, and Jane Casey Singer. Sacred Visions. Early Paintings from Central Tibet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
Kreijger, Hugo E. Kathmandu Valley Painting. The Jucker Collection. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Kvaerne, Per. The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition. Boston: Shambhala, 1996.
Linrothe, Rob. Paradise and Plumage. Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting. New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004.
Linrothe, Rob, and Jeff Watt. Demonic Divine: Himalayan Art and Beyond. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2004.
Mullin, Glenn H. Female Buddhas. Women of Enlightenment in Tibetan Mystical Art. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 2003.
Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Rene de. Oracles and Demons of Tibet. The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. Reprint, Kathmandu: Tiwari’s Pilgrims Book House, 1993.
Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Collection. Berkeley: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 1983.
Reynolds, Valrae. From the Sacred Realm. Treasures of Tibetan Art from The Newark Museum. With contributions by Janet Gyatso, Amy Heller, and Dan Martin. Munich: Prestel, 1999.
Rhie, Marilyn, and Robert Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion. The Sacred Art of Tibet. Revised Edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.
Rhie, Marilyn, and Robert Thurman. Worlds of Transformation. Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion. New York: Tibet House, New York in association with The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, 1999.
Selig Brown, Kathryn. Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 2004.
Shaw, Miranda. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Snellgrove, David, and Hugh Richardson. A Cultural History of Tibet. Boston & London: Shambhala, 1995.
Weldon, David, and Jane Casey Singer. The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet, Buddhist Art inthe Nyingjei Lam Collection. London: Laurence King Publishing, 1999.
