Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalaya

	Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalaya
				project sites Alchi Basgo Kanji Lalung Lamayuru Mangyu Nyarma Phyang Saspol Sumda Tabo Tholing Wanla methodology typology press press release FWF "Der Standard" G A M team

				Within a research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF a team of researchers at the Technical University of Graz under the leadership of Holger Neuwirth work on the documentation, analysis and reconstruction of buddhist temples in the Western Himalaya. The focus lies on the monuments of the 10th to 14th century of the former kingdom of Guge and Purang, which spread from Tholing in the Southwest of present China (Tibet) to the district of Zanskar in the Indian state Jammu & Kashmir.
	contact: a.o.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dipl.Ing.Dr. techn. Holger Neuwirth Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften Technische Universität Graz Technikerstrasse 4/III A 8010 Graz Tel.: +43 316 873 - 6940 / 6944 Fax: +43 316 873 - 6941 mail: neuwirth@tugraz.at