A new book “Mongolia: Museum Highlights”
Important works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum,
Choijin Lama Temple Museum and Bogd Khaan Palace Museum
Now
available online!
Mongolia has a rich history and along with it a great artistic tradition.
Now for the first time the great art of the three major museums in Mongolia
has been collected in one comprehensive book. From ancient Neolithic petroglyphs
to stunning 20th century Buddhist art, this amazing collection has now become
available to a wide audience.
Highlights include an impressive overview of the artwork of the Buddhist
leader and renowned artist Zanabazar. The White Samvara and White Tara are
pieces of arts of a unique standard, looking breathtakingly human.
The book features over 50 highlights of the works displayed in the Zanabazar
Fine Arts Museum, Choijin Lama Temple Museum and Bogd Khaan Palace Museum
in Ulaanbaatar.
Each highlight features detailed background information and a full color picture
of the object. In the 118 pages also a short, but very understandable glossary
of Buddhist and Mongolian terms is included.
All three museums included in the book are located in historically interesting
buildings. The Bodg Khan Green Winter Palace, was home to the last Great King
or Khan of Mongolia, and includes a big Buddhist complex. Together with the
Choijin Lama Temple Museum it is one of the only sites that survived the Stalinistic
purges of the 1930’s. If you don’t have a chance to visit them
or if you would like to have a tangible memory of your trip, this book is
a must!
Bulk purchase discount available at the Red Ger Gallery located in the Zanabazar
Fine Arts Museum in Ulaanbaatar.
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Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia
1921-1925 - Mabel Cabot
A Testament to the Great Spirit and Success of a Remarkable
Woman Explorer In the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers,
a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband,
Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia
to study the people, flora, and fauna of the region. Janet’s strenuous,
eventful exploration is detailed by a text enriched with excerpts from
her candid personal letters. The journey proved to be a test of the Wulsins’
endurance and of their relationship. While in Asia, the Wulsins took many
extraordinary photographs, which form the heart of this richly produced
publication. They documented tribespeople and sublime desert landscapes,
and, perhaps most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior
of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, many of which have
since been destroyed. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides
survived and are reproduced here in splendid color. The photographs from
the Wulsin expedition are now in the collection of the Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology, in collaboration with which this volume
is being produced. |
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Colloquial Mongolian - Alan J. K. Sanders...
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Mongolia - Claire Sermier
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Mongolia Bradt Guide - Jane Blunden
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Hearing Birds Fly - Louisa Waugh |
The Khan's Daughter - Laurence Yep |
A History of Inner Asia - Svat Soucek
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In The Empire of Genghis Khan - Stanley Stewart
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Eagle Dreams - Stephen J. Bodio
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Lonely Planet Mongolian Phrasebook - Alan J.K. Sanders
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
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Trans-Siberian Handbook, 6th - Bryn Thomas
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Women of Mongolia - Martha Avery |
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The Desert Road to Turkestan (Kodansha Globe) - Owen Lattimore |
Bones of the Master - GEORGE CRANE |
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade - Diane Lee Wilson
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