About the Authors
Li Jicheng, bom 1934, is one of thc top experts on thc
study of Tibetan Buddhism in China. He was a student of
Tibetan history and culture at the Central Nationalities
Institute in Beijing in the fifties. In 1965. he joined the
Institute of World Religions under the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences and dedicated most of his time to the
research work on Tibetan Buddhism. Because of his know-
ledge of the region and the Tibetan language, he was sent
to northem Tibet in 1974 to help to set up a secondary
school. During his two years stay there, he visited a large
number of lamaseries, discussed extensively with the lamas
and deepened enormously his understanding of the Esoteric
Sect. In 1978, he made another research trip to Tibet and
studied profoundly the canons and art of the religion. It
was during this visit that he encountered the co-author and
chief photographer of this book, Mr. Ku Shoukang and
concluded a collaboration on the prcsent work.
Li Jicheng is now an associated research fellow at the
Institute of World Religions and deputy secretary-general
of the Tibetan Buddhism Research Society of Beijing. He
is co-editor of a book entitled A Concise History of Tibet
and author of many books and articles, including "The
Invasion of Tibet by Tsarist Russia", "A Survey of the
Research Work on Tibetan Buddhism in Forcign Coun-
tries", "A Survey of the Research Work on Bon-po in
Foreign Countries", "The Spread of the Rnying-ma-pa Sect
of Tibetan Buddhism in Europe" and The Archltecture of
the Tibetan Lamaseries and Buddhist Art. He also trans-
lated a number of related articles by Western authorities
and is at present writirig a book entitled Tibetan Buddh-
ism.
Ku Shoukang is a well-known journalist and photogra-
pher who won many national awards for his outstanding
photos. His reports and photos have been carried by many
newspapers and magazines inside and outside China. Since
1956, he had been working as art editor and then photo
editor at the photographic department of the New China
News Agency in Beijmg, until he was transferred to Tibet
in 1977 as a resident correspondent of the Agency. It was
during the following five years that he, together with a
Tibetan photographer, Mr. Kang Song, travelled around
Tibet, visited the major lamaseries and took a great num-
ber of pictures of the religious buildings, the objects of art
they treasured, the lamas, the people and the religious
activities.
Ku is now living in Beijing and working as art editor of
the magazine Photographfc World.
0 有用 落落 2012-12-01 13:04:05
漂亮
0 有用 盲芒 2012-09-28 12:53:28
图非常精彩,实地去看更好!
0 有用 源 2020-03-17 20:24:57
#补标 2015#没想到,随意的翻开这本书后,我就一个人去了西藏。
0 有用 yszz 2021-11-21 04:00:41
文字簡練清晰。藏密的畫像有種原始的野性