The Clear Mirror Depicting the Pearl Roseries of Thanka Painting of the Tsang-pa Tradition of Tibet : Thangka Painting/Phuntsok Sangpo. Darjeeling, Tibetan Refugee Self Help Centre, 2000, 272 p., vi, 72 Colour plates, $138.

Contents: 1. Portrait of his Holiness, the Dalai Lama. 2. Portrait of his eminence Kyabje Dujom Rinpoche. 3. Photo of the author, Tsangpa painter Phuntsok Sangpo paying his respects to H.H. The Dalai Lama. 4. My life story. 5. The manual of drawing. 6. Paintings done in India: i. The twelve deeds of the Buddha. ii. The sixteen famous Sattaviras. iii. Pema Kathang, the life-story of the eleven Padma Sambhavas. iv. The eighty Siddhas. v. Accounts of the nine Tsogyals. vi. Leu Dunma. vii. The five Lamas of the Zogchhen school. viii. The celestial Palace Dechhen Shingko. ix. The celestial Palace of Sangdho Palri. x. Chhogling Ladup. xi. Chhogling Barchhe Lamsel. xii. Dujom Tersar Terkha Dhondhuki Tshhogshing. xiii. Dujom Tersar Chhime Srogthik. xiv. Rigzin srogdup. xv. King Trisong Dheu Tsen and his twenty four subjects who obtained Siddhis with him. xvi. Longchhen Nyingthiki Tshhogshing. xvii. Sheeto bakchhag Rangdol. xviii. Sheeto Sheewai Lhatsok. xix. Sheeto Dakpoe Lhatsok. xx. Lamas of the Kagyu order. xxi. Nojin shenpa Marpoi Lhatsog. Conclusion with a prayer.

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