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June 24, 1999
Steven Kossak, Jane Singer, and Robert Bruce-Gardner Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 224 pp.; 134 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (0810965275)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1998; Rietberg Museum, Zurich, February 1999

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Identifying the sources of Tibetan Buddhist painting has been the object of much scholarship in recent years, a pursuit that has often been frustrated by the scarcity of materials. While almost nothing except a few Dunhuang paintings in Tibetan style remains from the period of the First Conversion in the eighth century, about 500 works have survived from the years between the eleventh-twelfth century chidar, or Second Conversion under the guidance of the Indian sage...