Art ésotérique de l'Himâlaya: La donation Lionel Fournier. Architecture – Paysage laughter and silences

laughter and silences

those who were there—can recount these human adventures with such enthusiasm

This work constitutes the revised and corrected publication of a doctoral thesis completed at the Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University and defended in 2019

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great generals loyal to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Art ésotérique de l'Himâlaya: La donation Lionel Fournier. Architecture – Paysage laughter and silencesGenerous and inspired, the industrialist Lionel Fournier offered the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts around a hundred works of art illustrating the most esoteric aspects of Tibetan Buddhism in 1990. This gift was intended to promote a qualitative leap in the vision of a wide audience, because the collection gives pride of place to powerful and profound works, devoted in particular to so called "fierce" divinities until then, the existing