Reflections Around the Conservation of Sacred Thangkas

Sabine Cotte

doi:10.5334/jcms.1021207

Reflections Around the Conservation of Sacred Thangkas

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies

Volume 11 (2013): Issue 1

By: Sabine Cotte

Open Access

|Oct 2013

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