Melissa R. Kerin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University.

• List of IllustrationsTechnical NotesIntroduction1. Nako's Socio-Political History and Artistic Heritage2. Forgetting to Remember: Gyapagpa Temple's Shifting Identity 3. Mapping Drigung Activity in Nako and the Western Himalaya4. Gyapagpa's Painting Style and its Antecendents5. Origin and Meaning of a Renascent Painting Tradition ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"A forceful study on the specificity of Gyapagpa's painting."—South Asia Research"Emphasizing the visual as primary evidence in the study of history, especially religious history, Kerin moves Buddhist art from the arena of museum displays, art markets, and aesthetics to the arena of dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, thus reaffirming the significance of in situ study. . . . Recommended."—Choice"A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods—visual, linguistic and ethnographic—to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about. . . . [A] pleasure to read."—Pika Ghosh, author of Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

Melissa R. Kerin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University.

• List of IllustrationsTechnical NotesIntroduction1. Nako's Socio-Political History and Artistic Heritage2. Forgetting to Remember: Gyapagpa Temple's Shifting Identity 3. Mapping Drigung Activity in Nako and the Western Himalaya4. Gyapagpa's Painting Style and its Antecendents5. Origin and Meaning of a Renascent Painting Tradition ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"A forceful study on the specificity of Gyapagpa's painting."—South Asia Research"Emphasizing the visual as primary evidence in the study of history, especially religious history, Kerin moves Buddhist art from the arena of museum displays, art markets, and aesthetics to the arena of dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, thus reaffirming the significance of in situ study. . . . Recommended."—Choice"A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods—visual, linguistic and ethnographic—to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about. . . . [A] pleasure to read."—Pika Ghosh, author of Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal

Melissa R. Kerin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University.

• List of IllustrationsTechnical NotesIntroduction1. Nako's Socio-Political History and Artistic Heritage2. Forgetting to Remember: Gyapagpa Temple's Shifting Identity 3. Mapping Drigung Activity in Nako and the Western Himalaya4. Gyapagpa's Painting Style and its Antecendents5. Origin and Meaning of a Renascent Painting Tradition ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"A forceful study on the specificity of Gyapagpa's painting."—South Asia Research"Emphasizing the visual as primary evidence in the study of history, especially religious history, Kerin moves Buddhist art from the arena of museum displays, art markets, and aesthetics to the arena of dynamic interdisciplinary discourse, thus reaffirming the significance of in situ study. . . . Recommended."—Choice"A meticulous and discerning piece of scholarship, one that is skillful in employing multiple methods—visual, linguistic and ethnographic—to create a fuller picture of a region we knew little about. . . . [A] pleasure to read."—Pika Ghosh, author of Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal