Proceedings of the Forum on the Conservation of Thangkas 

Title page, Table of Contents, Preface

     Session 1 Theme: Conservation of Thangkas: Sacred and In Situ 

• Documenting Thangkas: A Conservation Strategy (full article), by Sanjay Dhar  (abstract only)

• Restoring Bhutanese Thangkas (full article), by Ephraim Jose (abstract only)

• Conservation of Thangkas: Preserving a Living Religious Heritage (full article), by Sabine Cotte (abstract only)
   

• Presenting, Handling and Treating Sacred Thangkas According to Western Standards and Respecting their Cultural Context – An Achievable Common Purpose? (full article), by Ute Griesser (abstract only)
   
• The Continuously Evolving Form of Thangkas (full article), by Ann Shaftel  (abstract only)
   
• Conservation of Thangkas (abstract), by Regina Knaller
   

Session 2 Theme: Thangkas in Collections: Case Studies and Approaches

• Conservation of Thangkas in the National Museum, New Delhi (full article), by Kamlesh Kumar Gupta (abstract only)
   
• Conservation of Thangka Paintings: A Cultural Heritage from the Himalayan Region (full article), by C. B. Gupta (abstract only)
   
• Thangka Conservation at INTACH, Delhi, India (full article), by Nilabh Sinha (abstract only)
   
• Restoration and Conservation of Tibetan and Nepalese Thangkas (full article), by Alan Farancz (abstract only)
   

• Conservation of Tibetan Thangka Paintings from the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (full article), by Mike Wheeler and Teresa Heady (abstract only)
   

• A Non-traditional Reversible and Transparent Display Mount for a Thangka with Significant Inscriptions on the Back of Primary Image (full article), by Joyce Ertel Hulbert (abstract only)
   
• A Shatrunjaya ‘Tirtha Pata’: A Monumental Jain Pilgrimage Painting in the Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (full article), by Elsje Janssen and Françoise Therry (abstract only)
  
       Session 3 Theme: Thangkas: Analyses of Materials 

• Thangka Production in the 18th - 21st Centuries: Documenting the Introduction of Non-traditional Materials into Himalayan Painting Practice (full article), by Jennifer Mass, Jo-Fan Huang, Betty Fiske, Ann Shaftel, Xian Zhang, Richard Laursen, Courtney Shimoda, Catherine Matsen and Christina Bisulca (abstract only)
   
• Understanding Tibetan Painting Materials: An Intermuseum Project (abstract), by Beth Price, Boris Pretzel, Katherine Paul, Catherine Higgitt, Ken Sutherland and Xian Zhang

• Asian Organic Colorants (abstract), by Cecily Grzywacz

• Documenting a Tibetan Wall Painting Reproduction (abstract), by Mikkel Scharff and Peder Bøllingtoft

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