Stephen F. Teiser
Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2007.
336 pp.; 14 color ills.; 74 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295986494)
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At the outset of Reinventing the Wheel, Stephen Teiser recounts an episode from Rudyard Kipling’s Kim that sets into motion the primary theme of his study. In this episode, the British curator of the Lahore Museum and a Tibetan lama exchange views in which the former presents Buddhism as a sweeping phenomenon framed by the panorama of book knowledge, while the latter intimates that the true fruits of the religion are found more locally in...