@article{477f6c56f78f4a40906a36ba261b7326,
title = "{"}Utterly false, utterly undeniable{"} visual strategies in the Akanistha Shrine murals of Takden Phuntsokling monastery",
abstract = "This essay argues that the design strategies of the murals in the Akanistha Shrine, the top-floor shrine at Tāranātha's Takden Phuntsokling, were intended to provoke in the viewer a type of absorption compatible with Tibetan Buddhist values. This would have been in line with contemporaneous recognition of the potential for consecrated works of art to provide direct contact with the deity depicted. By eliminating framing and boundaries between scenes, minimizing inscriptions, employing the gaze to foster internal and external coherence, and using detailing, highlighting, and a painterly illusion of proximity, the murals invite the beholder to engage with an aesthetic of presence.",
keywords = "'Og min lha khang, Absorption, Akanistha Shrine, Kālacakra, Takden Phuntsokling, Tibet, Tibetan art history, Tāranātha, Visionary experience",
author = "Rob Linrothe",
note = "Funding Information: I would like to put on record my gratitude to the two reviewers of my manuscript for many helpful suggestions and corrections, to Stanley Abe for perceptive recommendations, as well as to David Templeman for sharing his extraordinary, sustained body of work on Tāranātha. I thank Benjamin Bogin for discussing and clarifying the first pasage with me; personal communication, December 2015. Andrew Quintman and Kurtis Schaefer also deserve my thanks for their intellectual generosity and for allowing me to use their photograph as my Figure 2. A debt is acknowledged here to Mary Gladue for her patience and thoroughness in the editing process. Printing in color has been made possible in part by a grant from Elizabeth and Todd Warnock to the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. Finally, I appreciate the friendship of Buzzy Teiser and Wei Yang, in whose company in 2005 I first encountered many of the paintings discussed here as part of the scouting trip for the 2007 Tibet Site Seminar, sponsored by the Luce Foundation and supported by Princeton University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Asia Society.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1215/00666637-4229692",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "67",
pages = "143--187",
journal = "Archives of Asian Art",
issn = "0066-6637",
publisher = "University of Hawaii Press",
number = "2",
}