Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Bon brgya dge legs lhun grub rgya mtsho, Musashi Tachikawa, Shin’ichi Tsumagari and Yasuhiko Nagano. Appendix. Index. 

The present volume contains a detailed descriptive analysis of a set of a thangka collection from Rebkong, one of the strongholds of Bon culture in Northern Tibet, where a different system and style from that of the Khyungpo school is observed. This Thangka collection is under the possession of National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. Since, unlike the Buddhist tradition, Bonpo do not have any reference of norms for their thangkas, our work started from the iconographical description found in Bon liturgical texts. For this purpose, we requested venerable Bon brgya dGe legs Ihun grub rgya mtsho to commission the artists in Rebkong to draw the paintings in accordance with the texts. We have therefore thangka paintings that follow the traditional style of the Rebkong region.