CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgements, THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL MATTERS: 1. Stretched to Fit The Western Himalaya: A Himalayan-Scaled Archive of Linguistic Tokens, 2. Tibetan Painted Scrolls and the Practice of Art History, EARLY MATTERS: 3. Early Buddhist Stupa Reliefs in Zangskar, 4. Early Buddhist Figural Art in Zangskar: Tracing Sources Upstream, 5. Looking Westward: Painting in the Kashmiri Idiom 10th-12th Century Zangskar and West Tibet, MORE RECENT EARLY MATTERS: 6. Mahasiddha Stone Engravings of Tungri Nunnery and Manda Village: Linear and Painterly, 7. Discovery, Deconsecration, Rebuilding and Reconsecration: Revisiting the Art, Architecture, and Relics in Karsha's Chuchikzhal Complex, 8. Reflections on a Buddhist Painting of Sarasvati in Zangskar, Bibliography, Index and Glossary, Abbreviations, 510pp.,