Paradise and Plumage: Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting, by Robert Linrothe

The 16 Arhats are considered to have been either the actual disciples of the Buddha or followers who lived soon after his time. Featuring descriptions of artworks accompanied by color photographs, this exhibition catalog explores the relationship between Chinese and Tibetan images of these enlightened beings.

Tibeto-Chinese and Sino-Tibetan paintings of the 15th to 18th century, mainly from the Rubim Museum of Art Important study on Tibetan and Chinese Art and on "Blue-and-green" landscape painting. Academic niveau.