Tibetan Pilgrimage--Architecture of the Socred Land.Watercolour watercolour Painting made with a pigment ground in gum, usually gum arabic, and applied with brush and water to a surface, usually paper. The pigment is ordinarily transparent but can be made opaque by mixing with a whiting to produce gouache. of the Maitreya temple, part of the fourteenth-century royal citadel of Tingmogang in Ladakh, from Tibetan Pilgrimage--Architecture of the Socred Land, by Michel Peissel Michel Peissel (born in Paris in 1937) is a French anthropologist, explorer and author who writes in english and speaks fluent Tibetan. At the age of 21, he recorded 14 yet unknow Mayan archeological sites in Quintana Roo, Mexico. , London: Abrams, 2005, [pounds sterling]19.95. Peissel, a French anthropologist who speaks Tibetan, is an intrepid explorer, scouring scouring characterized by scour. scouring disease a colloquial name for secondary nutritional copper deficiency. the inhospitable mountainous terrain of the Himalayan plateau on foot and on horseback on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle. See also: Horseback to reach the fortresses, chapels, monasteries and temples he has meticulously recorded for this book. It is a lifetime's work--45 years, 29 expeditions--but Peissel's beautiful watercolours and unsentimental commentary convey a lively, authentic sense of Tibetan culture that still endures. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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