Zanskar Selected Bibliography

Zanskar Selected Bibliography

Zanskar: Selected Bibliography

These readings provide background on the history, Buddhist art, architecture, building traditions, and changing livelihoods of Zanskar and neighboring Ladakh. Titles retain the spellings of place names used in the original publications.

Agrawal, R. C. Archaeology of Zangskar Valley. Delhi: Sharada Publishing House, 2018.

Dame, Juliane, and J. Seb Mankelow. “Stongde Revisited: Land-Use Change in Central Zangskar.” Erdkunde 64, no. 4 (2010): 355–370. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2010.04.05.

Lange, Diana. “Visual Representation of Ladakh and Zangskar in the British Library’s Wise Collection.” In Visible Heritage: Essays on the Art and Architecture of Greater Ladakh, edited by Rob Linrothe and Heinrich Pöll, 131–168. New Delhi: Studio Orientalia, 2016.

Li, Kuang-Han. “Conservation of Vernacular Ladakhi Architecture: The Munshi House in Old Town Leh, Ladakh.” Master’s thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Linrothe, Rob. “Preliminary Report on 15th Century Murals in Zangskar.” Orientations 43, no. 5 (June 2012): 36–43.

Linrothe, Rob. “Site Unseen: Approaching a Royal Buddhist Monument of Zangskar (Western Himalayas).” The Tibet Journal 40, no. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2015): 29–88.

Pommaret-Imaeda, Françoise. “The Construction of Ladakhi Houses in the Indus Valley.” In Tibetan Studies in Honour of Hugh Richardson: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 1979, edited by Michael Aris and Aung San Suu Kyi, 249–255. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1980.

Snellgrove, David L., and Tadeusz Skorupski. The Cultural Heritage of Ladakh. Vol. 2, Zangskar and the Cave Temples of Ladakh. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1980.