These painting of the Buddha’s life are of enormous significance as they do not only show completely new themes and aesthetic principles of pictorial space and visual narration compared to earlier life cycles in the region but they also shed light on the conceptualizations of that time with regard to aspects of the social and religio-political context.
mNga’ ris – Tibet Autonomous Region, PRC), (figs 1-3). cf. Vitali 1996, p. 631) in historical Western Tibet, situated north of Tholing in a side valley of the Sutlej (Tsamda district 1, Ngari prefecture – Tib. Dung dkar, also Dun bkar, DuN mkhar, etc. rTsa mda’ rdzong (see Gyalpo 2006, p. 173).ġ This article deals with the narrative paintings of the Buddha’s life in cave 1 of the three monumental cave shrines at Dungkar (Tib.
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