The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting (Masterworks of Tibetan Painting)

For centuries, Tibetan artists looked to their Buddhist heartland, India, for artistic direction.

With the destruction of India's key monasteries in 1203, however, many artists turned to Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, home to the exceptionally skilled Newar artists. The Newars' distinctive painting style, known as the Beri, was quickly adopted in Tibet, becoming one of the country's most influential artistic styles for four centuries. The Nepalese Legacy traces this style's development, patronage, and distinctive features and places major painting commissions of the Ngor Monastery in a more complete context than was previously possible. b>David P. Jackson is the author of Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style and A History of Tibetan Painting. He is curator of the Rubin Museum of Art's reconstruction of Tibetan art history. Formerly professor of Tibetan at Hamburg University, he lives on Whidbey Island, Washington.