Gudrun Bühnemann. Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal. Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, November 2008.* ISBN 978-99946-933-4-4. [Now available through Vajra Books.]
Contents:
Preface … 7
1. Pictorial Representations of a Tradition of Eighty-Four Siddhas … 9
1.1 Early Textual Sources: *Śrīsena and Bu ston … 9
1.2 A Painting from Bhaktapur Portraying the Siddhas around Vajradhāra … 16
1.2.1 A Discussion of the Painting … 16
1.2.2 A Reproduction of the Painting … 21
1.3 An Incomplete Set of Line Drawings from LACMA Portraying the Siddhas … 25
1.3.1 General Remarks on the Line Drawings … 25
1.3.2 A Reproduction of the Line Drawings … 29
1.4 A Painting from the Kronos Collections Portraying the Siddhas around Virūpā … 45
1.4.1 A Discussion of the Painting … 45
1.4.2 A Reproduction of the Painting … 51
1.5 The Siddha Tradition according to the Two Paintings and the Line Drawings … 55
1.5.1 The Names of the Siddhas in the Bhaktapur Painting and the Line Drawings … 55
1.5.2 The Representation of the Siddhas in the Two Paintings and the Line Drawings … 58
2. Pictoral Representations of Sixty-four and Thirty-six Forms of Cakrasaṃvara … 97
2.1 The Sixty-four Saṃvaras … 97
2.1.1 The Painted Scroll in the Dabriwala Collection Depicting the Sixty-Four Saṃvaras … 97
2.1.1.1 Remarks on the Painted Scroll … 97
2.1.1.2 A Reproduction of the Painted Scroll … 1052.1.2 The Saṃvaras according to the Catuḥṣaṣṭisaṃvarastotra … 115
2.1.2.1 The Saṃvaras Eulogized in the Catuḥṣaṣṭisaṃvarastotra … 115
2.1.2.2 The Illustrated Stotra Manuscript in the Huntington Collection … 118
2.1.2.3 The Illustrated Stotra Manuscript in the Alsop Collection … 123
2.2 The Thirty-Six Saṃvaras
2.2.1 The Thirty-six Saṃvaras Eulogized in the Chatrisaṃvarastuti … 123
2.2.2 Line Drawings Likely Depicting Another Group of Thirty-Six Saṃvaras … 1262.2.2.1 Remarks on the Line Drawings … 126
2.2.2.2 A Reproduction of the Line Drawings … 131
3. A Set of Line Drawings Based on the Parikramavidhi in Kuladatta’s Kriyāsaṃgraha(pañjikā)
3.1 Introductory Remarks … 153
3.2 The Kriyāsaṃgraha(pañjikā) … 154
3.3 The Author Kuladatta … 157
3.4 The Parikramavidhi in Chapter 6 of the Kriyāsaṃgraha(pañjikā) … 1593.4.1 Introductory Remarks on the Parikramavidhi … 159
3.4.2 Extant Sets of Line Drawings Based on a Section of the Parikramavidhi … 164
3.4.3 A Set of Line Drawings from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1673.4.3.1 A Preliminary Analysis of the Set of Line Drawings … 167
3.4.3.2 A Reproduction of the Set of Line Drawings L … 177
Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations … 197
General Index … 207
* Thanks to the author for acknowledging yours truly (Preface, p.[7]).