Rob Linrothe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1266614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Linrothe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Linrothe |
| SIGNATURE | LINROTHE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Vol. 1: Elements; Vol. 2: Elaborations
This large-format two-volume set offers a bountiful harvest of insight into the character and historical development of an understudied but vital cultural instrument for the transmission of knowledge. The first volume provides tools to unpack the material makeup and development of the manuscript and book medium in Tibet, the Himalaya, and associated regions. The second volume explores the parameters and instances of its critical impact. The set i…
“Structure and Subject Matter” at Dunhuang
Michelle Wang's Maṇḍalas in the Making is a groundbreaking treatment of mainly ninth- and tenth-century wall murals at Dunhuang making use of recent scholarship on early Esoteric Buddhist texts, teachers, and themes in Chinese and Tibetan sources. The review article assesses and extends the understanding and definitions of forms of mandala in India and China, recognizing the distinction between textual accounts of internal, visualized mandalas (b…
"Rob Linrothe. Review of "Maṇḍalas in the Making: "The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang" by Michelle C. Wang
Hidden in Plain Sight
This is a review article of Janet Gyatso's 2015 award-winning book, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. The art-historical aspects of the book—mainly confined to the first chapter, “Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State” and based on a perceptive art-historical reading of a set of medical paintings and its copies—had yet to be reviewed by an academically-trained art…
Photography, painting, and prints in Ladakh and Zangskar. Intermediality and transmediality
The central thesis of this essay is that one of the most important aspects of the pioneering use of photographic portraits of teachers in the late 19th and early 20th century in Western Himalayan Buddhist contexts is its ongoing visual relationship to and with pre-photographic media, including sculpture, printing, and especially painting. Evidence shows that the most common compositions for early portrait photographs drew closely on earlier templ…
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Mirror Image: Deity and Donor as Vajrasattva
Introduction: Buddhist Visual Culture
Travel Albums and Revisioning Narratives: A Case Study in the Getty’s Fleury “Cachemire” Album of 1908
Skirting the Bodhisattva: Fabricating Visionary Art
This essay explores the image-text relationship between the ca. 12-century monumental Maitreya bodhisattva sculpture within a narrow tower in the village of Mangyu and passages from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra. Paintings on the dhotī of the sculpture resemble themes described within a kūtāgāra-tower in the text related to Maitreya, and also depict one of the prominent jātaka associated with the Buddha, the Starving Tigress, or Vyāghrī jātaka. The essay …
Polishing the Past: The Style of a Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Mural
Peripheral Visions: On Recent Finds of Tangut Buddhist Art
En 1991 ont ete decouvertes dans la province de Ningxia, pres de la capitale de l'empire tangoute Da Xia (Xi Xia) deux peintures sur tissus du 12e s. relevant des styles bouddhiques himalayen et chinois. Apres la description du contexte geographique, politique et economique de l'empire Da Xia (1038-1227), l'auteur analyse, a partir de ces deux oeuvres, le traitement des deux traditions artistiques par les artistes tangoutes, situes au carrefour d…
Provincial or Providential: Reassessment of an Esoteric Buddhist “Treasure”
(1986). Provincial or Providential: Reassessment of an Esoteric Buddhist “Treasure”. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 197-225
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Mirror Image: Deity and Donor as Vajrasattva
Introduction: Buddhist Visual Culture
Provincial or Providential: Reassessment of an Esoteric Buddhist “Treasure”
(1986). Provincial or Providential: Reassessment of an Esoteric Buddhist “Treasure”. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 197-225
Peripheral Visions: On Recent Finds of Tangut Buddhist Art
En 1991 ont ete decouvertes dans la province de Ningxia, pres de la capitale de l'empire tangoute Da Xia (Xi Xia) deux peintures sur tissus du 12e s. relevant des styles bouddhiques himalayen et chinois. Apres la description du contexte geographique, politique et economique de l'empire Da Xia (1038-1227), l'auteur analyse, a partir de ces deux oeuvres, le traitement des deux traditions artistiques par les artistes tangoutes, situes au carrefour d…
Skirting the Bodhisattva: Fabricating Visionary Art
This essay explores the image-text relationship between the ca. 12-century monumental Maitreya bodhisattva sculpture within a narrow tower in the village of Mangyu and passages from the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra. Paintings on the dhotī of the sculpture resemble themes described within a kūtāgāra-tower in the text related to Maitreya, and also depict one of the prominent jātaka associated with the Buddha, the Starving Tigress, or Vyāghrī jātaka. The essay …
Polishing the Past: The Style of a Seventeenth-Century Tibetan Mural
Travel Albums and Revisioning Narratives: A Case Study in the Getty’s Fleury “Cachemire” Album of 1908
Mirror Image: Deity and Donor as Vajrasattva
Introduction: Buddhist Visual Culture
JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh,The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh, perhaps Asia's most prominent living author, moves among many genres and across vast territories. His fiction-The Circle of Reason(1986),The Shadow Lines(1988),The Glass Place(2000),The Hungry Tide(2004), andThe Ibistrilogy-takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction-In an Antique Land(1992),Dancing in Cambodia a…
Hidden in Plain Sight
This is a review article of Janet Gyatso's 2015 award-winning book, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. The art-historical aspects of the book—mainly confined to the first chapter, “Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State” and based on a perceptive art-historical reading of a set of medical paintings and its copies—had yet to be reviewed by an academically-trained art…
Photography, painting, and prints in Ladakh and Zangskar. Intermediality and transmediality
The central thesis of this essay is that one of the most important aspects of the pioneering use of photographic portraits of teachers in the late 19th and early 20th century in Western Himalayan Buddhist contexts is its ongoing visual relationship to and with pre-photographic media, including sculpture, printing, and especially painting. Evidence shows that the most common compositions for early portrait photographs drew closely on earlier templ…
"Rob Linrothe. Review of "Maṇḍalas in the Making: "The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang" by Michelle C. Wang
“Structure and Subject Matter” at Dunhuang
Michelle Wang's Maṇḍalas in the Making is a groundbreaking treatment of mainly ninth- and tenth-century wall murals at Dunhuang making use of recent scholarship on early Esoteric Buddhist texts, teachers, and themes in Chinese and Tibetan sources. The review article assesses and extends the understanding and definitions of forms of mandala in India and China, recognizing the distinction between textual accounts of internal, visualized mandalas (b…
Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Vol. 1: Elements; Vol. 2: Elaborations
This large-format two-volume set offers a bountiful harvest of insight into the character and historical development of an understudied but vital cultural instrument for the transmission of knowledge. The first volume provides tools to unpack the material makeup and development of the manuscript and book medium in Tibet, the Himalaya, and associated regions. The second volume explores the parameters and instances of its critical impact. The set i…
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