Newar Art: Nepalese Art during the Malla Period (Central Asian Studies)

Visitors to the Kathmandu Valley are always impressed by its distinctive and complex art and architecture, and often see it as typically Nepalese. However, in most cases it is the creation of the original inhabitants of the Valley, the Newars, whose craftsmen worked at Lhasa and were also much influenced by Indian tradition. This illustrated survey covers the entire Malla Period, ending withthe Gorkha conquest of 1768.