Beautifully presented in two volumes, Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology establishes a reliable foundation for assigning dates to nearly one hundred paintings associated with Taklung Monastery in central Tibet and its sister monastery, Riwoche in eastern Tibet. Using visual lineages (the succession of teachers represented in the top, side, and, occasionally, the bottom registers of paintings), inscriptions, narrative scenes (in which principal structures in the Taklung Monastery compound may be linked to specific dates), and style analysis, the author identifies fundamental parameters that help to create firm chronological designations for these c. twelfth to mid-sixteenth century paintings. This essential two-volume set includes more than 800 images, illustrating Taklung paintings in vivid detail, pointing out key visual comparisons and deciphering their many inscriptions.

Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology, Jane Casey, Serindia, 2-Volume Set in Hardcover & Slipcase, Volume I & II, 1134 pages, $850.00

Jane Casey Singer is an art historian specialising in Tibetan art. She was co-author of Tibetan Art: Towards a Definition of Style (1997) and co-curator of 'Sacred Visions' (1998), an exhibition of early Tibetan painting organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.