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Le paradis de la déesse Tara
[The paradise of the goddess Tara]
From Odette Monod-Bruhl., Peintures tibetaines. Paris: Albert Guillot, 1954
Luce Collection, Asian Collections

Embodying the great tradition which Tibetan culture has given to civilisation, this image is drawn from the National Library’s collection of materials relating to the people ‘at the roof of the world’.  See story.

April 2005 Volume XV Number 7

TIBETAN TEXTS AND TRAVELS

 

Andrew Gosling explores the Library’s holdings on the people who live on ‘the roof of the world’

PATTERNS OF NATURE: THE ART OF JOHN GOULD AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
  Matthew Stephens reveals the story of the Gould pattern plates and the many processes involved in the realisation of the artist’s vision
DYMPHNA CLARK—A PORTRAIT
 

Roslyn Russell recalls the life of a distinguished linguist and Canberra personality

A BATH BUTTERFLY: BOTANY AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SEXUAL POLITICS
 

Jennifer Lovell discloses some saucy connections between science and Enlightenment society

MARY KAWATANI KIRBY: A WOMAN OF TWO WORLDS

Keiko Tamura sketches the story of a girl at the intersection of East and West

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