Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace

Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace 21.6 x 29cm 260pp, 169 color plates, 158 b/w illustrations Chinese and English text Clothbound, 1992 ISBN 962-321-026-4

In the Forbidden City there was a rarely known Buddhist world, a magnificent and mysterious world of Buddhist art formed by chapels, which can be found everywhere in the palace, and tens of thousands of art treasures of Tibetan Buddhism. This is because the imperial court of the Ming and Qing dynasties had close relations with Tibetan Buddhism. The court frequently received tributes from the Tibetan local governments, most of which were cultural relics. Moreover, in the Qing dynasty, most emperors and their queens and concubines were active and pious Buddhists.  The catalogue has a brief introduction on the culture, tangkas, statues, sutras, chapels, and ritual implements and sacrificial utensils of Tibetan Buddhism in the Qing Palace, and 169 color plates with detailed descriptions.

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