Traditional Tibetan Rugs - artelino

This page presents a color slide show of 108 Buddhist unique statues from the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. The images were published in 2009 with a book titled the 'The Jokhang Bronzes' by Ulrich von  Schroeder. See the literature reference at the end of this article.

Tourists in Nepal admire old temples, pagodas and palaces in Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur. All these old monuments are constructed with bricks and wood. Well, not just wood, but carved wood. Wood carving in Nepal has been one of the highest developed forms of craftsmanship in the world.

But few are aware that this old craft is still alive in the Kathmandu valley, mainly in Patan. This article reports about the old art of wood carving in Nepal and gives some practical tips for buying or commissioning unique hand-carved items in Nepal.

Osamu Sugiyama, born 1946 in Japan, is an passionate mountaineer and woodblock printmaker in Japanese style. The artist has climbed mountains all over the world, in Japan, Switzerland and of course in Nepal.

This is an exceptional documentary film by NOVA, a popular science and documentary series on television. The film is about Upper Mustang in Nepal with breathtaking images in HD quality.

This region on altitudes of more than 4,000 meters has preserved a nearly untouched medieval, Tibetan culture. The former "Last Forbidden Kingdom" was inaccessible for foreigners for centuries until 1991.