Serindia Publications

05/12/2023

Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology by Jane Casey, with contributions by Gyurme Dorje and Liao Yang.

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11/11/2023

Taklung Painting: A Study in Chronology
by Jane Casey
with contributions by Gyurme Dorje and Liao Yang

Book preview: https://qrco.de/taklungpreview

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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.

JANE CASEY is an art historian specializing in Himalayan art. Educated in the History of Science (A.B.) and in Fine Arts (A.M. and Ph.D.) at Harvard University, since 1991 she has worked as an independent art historian, curating exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at Casa Asia, Barcelona. She is a Guest Professor at the Zhejiang University Center for Buddhist Art in Hangzhou and a Research Fellow in Tibetan Art at the Palace Museum in Beijing.

30/10/2023

30 Nov, 17.30 GMT
ARIS LECTURE 2023
@ Wolfson College, Oxford
live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iqX4SJ0uI

04/04/2023

Revisiting the works of CHI WING LO, Master Designer who is behind the latest renovation of Hong Kong's iconic REGENT HOTEL. Read about him below from a piece in Design Anthology.

His design exhibition, AURA, was published by Serindia Contemporary in 2018 and is available at https://serindia.com/products/aura

The Hong Kong-born, Europe-based multidisciplinary designer behind the newly reopened Regent Hong Kong reflects on his creative path and design philosophy

04/04/2023

ALCHI: Ladakh's Hidden Buddhist Sanctuary (2 Volumes)

Roger Goepper, Christian Luczanits
with contributions by Holger Neuwirth, Carmen Auer, Rob Linroth, and Nils Martin

24 x 29 cm, Vol I: 440 pages, Vol II: 400 pages,
1000+ color illustrations
https://serindia.com/products/alchi2vols

Hardcover, slipcase
ISBN 978-1-932476-97-2

**Limited Edition; Presented in two volumes, gold stamping on cover and spine, museum-quality Japanese paper interior, sewn and bound in hardcover with a slipcase**

19/12/2022

The Thai-language edition of Loel Guinness's Rainbow Body, translated by Krisadawan Kalsang Dawa, is now available — the first non-English language of this seminal study. Only available for shipping from Bangkok from the link below:

กายรุ้ง โดย โลเอล กินเนสส์ ผู้เขียน กฤษดาวรรณ เมธาวิกุล (เกซัง ตาวา) ผู้แปล Rainbow Body by Loel Guinness (Thai-language Edition) Translated by Krisadawan Kalsang Dawa ไ....

19/12/2022

Rainbow Body is now available as a Kindle edition on Amazon.

There is no better illustration of the radical transformative power of the ancient Tibetan contemplative teachings of Dzogchen than the extraordinary phenomenon of bodily disappearance or “rainbow body”, which is considered its ultimate fruit. In this groundbreaking study of rainbow...

04/12/2022

On the latest annual Aris Lectures

The lectures take place in Michaelmas Term. We are tremendously grateful to all those who have helped to make these lectures possible.

04/07/2022

We wish all scholars and participants of IATS 2022 all the successes. Editor Dr. Patrick Booz is at the conference. Enjoy the beautiful city of Prague!

26/06/2022

Tibet Heritage Fund: In this video, Pimpim, co-founder of THF, shares her own story about her experience and work in the Himalayan region over the past 30 years. She also shares her beliefs and convictions that keep her working, and their plans to move on.

https://youtu.be/75NsGexq5Sk

27/03/2022

In deepest loving memory, Anthony & Michael Aris (b. 27 March 1946).

12/03/2022

It is with sadness to learn of the passing of Dr. Isrun Engelhardt (1941-2022), German Tibetologist and Byzantine Empire specialist, author of Tibet in 1938-1939: Photographs from the Ernst Schäfer Expedition in Tibet (Serindia, 2007). With fond memories of having worked with her, attending seminars and seeing her yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair. She is greatly missed.

Her papers can be found on https://www.info-buddhism.com
(according to our latest exchanges in 2020)

12/02/2022

A review of The Royal History of Sikkim in the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research.
https://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/ebhr/index.php?id=423

The Royal History of Sikkim is a secular history of Sikkim and the House of Namgyal. It was written to record and preserve the history of the country from a Sikkimese perspective and in contrast to...

03/12/2021

"Tibetan and Himalayan Studies is turning twenty-one! On Saturday 4th December, we'll be celebrating the "coming of age" of the Tibetan Studies programme in conjunction with this year's Aris Lecture"

For online access, a Youtube-Livestream has been created: https://youtu.be/M-QQ4XSxUlY

21 Years of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Oxford
༄༄ བོད་དང་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ་རིག་པའི་དུས་སྟོན།

2021 Aris Lecture, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

12/09/2021

Congrats to all the contributors this magnificent 9-volume set and to Princeton University Press / Dept of Art and Archaeology Princeton University for publishing it. Dunhuang and the regional crossroads once termed Serindia can now be better understood, owing to this invaluable photography archive of James C. M. Lo (1902-1987) and Lucy L. Lo (b. 1920).

Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves, Edited by Dora C.Y. Ching, with contributions by Contributions by Annette Juliano, Neville Agnew, Jerome Silbergeld, Maria Menshikova, Cary Y. Liu, Roderick Whitfield, Richard K. Kent, Jun Hu, Zhao Shengliang, Wei-Cheng Lin

More info:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691208152/visualizing-dunhuang

We are happy to acquire a set for our research library.

29/08/2021

Serindia’s new digital initiatives: A ‘digital permanency’ policy that embraces recent technology in three new ways:

1. The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine on the blockchain. This allows the images from the seminal book Tibetan Medical Paintings (1992) to be properly registered for access. These images serve as a catalogue for scholars and specialists. Details and access are available here qrco.de/atlasmedicine

2. NFTs — a new class of digital collectibles. We have created two collections: 1. NFT: The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine

Here’s our first NFT from the Atlas collection: qrco.de/nftatlas1

and 2. N superFluous Things — Digital design collectibles: N superFluous Things, based upon the Ming-dynasty taste-making treatise, Superfluous Things. We work with young artists in creating new works useable for both the metaverse and the physical. Link: qrco.de/superfluousthings (coming soon).

3. Migrating select digital assets onto an unerasable cloud hard drive. Working with new technology, we want to ensure important digital images remain for future applications.

The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine
qrco.de/atlasmedicine

Our first NFT: qrco.de/nftatlas1
Bhaiṣajyaguru NFT (Open Edition)

Have fun exploring!

Our latest LinkTree: linktr.ee/serindia

The Palace of Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru, Master of Remedies, here is animated clockwise, with identical front and back sides. Drawn from Serindia's digital archive, this NFT (non-fungible token) was conceived as an open-edition digit

24/08/2021

Very Kyoto! A virtual conference can be beautifully organized — ICAS 12 (Int’l Convention of Asian Scholars 24-28 Aug) hosting virtually in Kyoto, with an exhibition by Kyoto Seika University, film festival, and other virtual interests. Serindia publishing stand features a video lecture on The Royal History of Sikkim with Prof em. Dr. Per K. Sørensen and Dr. John Ardussi.

Event is for registered participants only; more info https://site2.convention.co.jp/icas2021/

18/08/2021

First look at Serindia's virtual booth at The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Kyoto, ONLINE virtual convention, 24–28 August 2021.

For the first time, the stand is also virtual, a small step into the metaverse. You can visit the stand as if it were a live-stand, leave your card, questions, notes. Helpdesk is available.

ICAS 12 Kyoto begins 24 August. Will post a link to the stand once ready.

Look forward to this Kyoto virtual event!

https://site2.convention.co.jp/icas2021/

11/06/2021

Mon 14 June, 17:15 BST
Everybody is cordially invited!
Registration at: [email protected]
Tibet & Himalaya Colloquium Lecture Series / Lecture No. 6
Prof. em. Dr. Per K. Sørensen and Dr. John Ardussi:
"The Royal History of Sikkim: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal.
A new, fully annotated and illustrated Translation from the
Tibetan Original."

22/05/2021

New Release (shipping in June 2021):

THE ROYAL HISTORY OF SIKKIM: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal As Narrated in Tibetan by THEIR HIGHNESSES CHOGYAL THUTOB NAMGYAL and GYALMO YESHE DOLMA, Based upon the Preliminary Translation by Kazi Dawasamdup

Corrected, Supplemented and Thoroughly Revised by John A. Ardussi Anna Balikci Denjongpa, and Per K. Sørensen

Under the Patronage of Her Majesty GYALYUM KESANG CHOEDEN WANGCHUCK Queen Mother to HM the Fourth King of Bhutan

Price: USD$150.00 (limited int'l release)

33.7 x 25.7 x 6.8 cm, 634 pages, fully illustrated, maps (including a separate fold-out map of Sikkim), bibliography, index, hardcover, Serindia Publications, 2021. Printed in Italy.

** For residents of India, Nepal or Bhutan, click here to fill out this form for local pricing and release information https://forms.gle/WpvxkVy9CdUdrzWx6**

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THE ROYAL HISTORY OF SIKKIM: A Chronicle of the House of NamgyalAs Narrated in Tibetan by THEIR HIGHNESSES CHOGYAL THUTOB NAMGYAL and GYALMO YESHE DOLMA, Based upon the Preliminary Translation by Kazi Dawasamdup Corrected, Supplemented and Thoroughly Revised by John A. Ardussi Anna Balikci Denjongpa...

22/05/2021

New Publication Announcement:

THE ROYAL HISTORY OF SIKKIM: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal As Narrated in Tibetan by THEIR HIGHNESSES CHOGYAL THUTOB NAMGYAL and GYALMO YESHE DOLMA

Based upon the Preliminary Translation by Kazi Dawasamdup
Corrected, Supplemented and Thoroughly Revised by John A. Ardussi, Anna Balikci Denjongpa and Per K. Sørensen

Under the Patronage of Her Majesty GYALYUM KESANG CHOEDEN WANGCHUCK Queen Mother to HM the Fourth King of Bhutan

THE ROYAL HISTORY OF SIKKIM was written in Tibetan at the turn of the 19th century by the then ruler, Chogyal Thutob Namgyal and his Tibetan Queen-consort Yeshe Dolma. It is a unique work of local history, presenting an alternative narrative to accounts of their Himalayan state written by contemporary British officials arguing the viewpoints of imperial India.

The small mountain kingdom of Sikkim was founded in the mid-17th century as an ethnically diverse Buddhist monarchy intimately tied to Tibet. The Royal History of Sikkim dramatically tells the story of how, over the following centuries, their country survived pressure from more powerful states on all sides. Finally, during the 19th century, Sikkim came within the protective orbit of British India, whose rulers would act on Sikkim’s behalf against its enemies only if the Chogyal adhered to their mandates to serve as a commercial gateway into Tibet.

A preliminary translation of this important work of Himalayan history was written in 1909 – 1910 by the Sikkimese scholar Kazi Dawasamdup, well-known to Tibet specialists. However, following the demise of the royal couple, and as political alliances changed, the original Tibetan manuscript was set aside until being first published in 2003. The English translation, however, was never completed or published until now.

Price: USD$150.00 (limited int'l release; see our web site for more info)

Available: June 2021

33.7 x 25.7 x 6.8 cm, 634 pages, fully illustrated, maps (including a separate fold-out map of Sikkim), bibliography, index, hardcover, Serindia Publications, 2021. Printed in Italy.

ISBN: 987-1932476-39-2

31/03/2021

Monograph of the leading Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, beautifully illustrated with more than 1,000 images, covering 35 years of her work up to date. Pre-order it by 30 April for the special pre-publication price on Serindia’s web site at qrco.de/pinaree

824 pages, hardcover with embroidered cover, 1000+ images; shipping in May 2021.

27/03/2021

Pinaree Sanpitak 1985-2020 Monograph pre-orders open today with the LIVE on-site from House Calls at 100 Tonson Foundation https://fb.me/e/JeXha3ey

The special pre-publication price is
THB 1,500 / USD 55 (valid until 30 April 2021)

You can order it online from the below links, with all the details:

Shipping in MAY 2021

For orders in Thailand (สั่งและจัดส่ง/รับในประเทศไทย)
qrco.de/pinaree

Rest of the World (Asia/US/UK/Australia): (ต่างประเทศ)
qrco.de/pinareeworld

Size: 194 x 273 mm (7.6 x 10.7 in), 824 pages, 1,000+ color illustrations, Hardcover