Mary Shepherd Slusser is the author of an authoritative history of the culture of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Mandala. Paul Jett is director of conservation and scientific research at the Freer/Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
"""The antiquity of this startling corpus pushes a distinctive tradition of wooden architecture in the valley back by over five centuries and upstages even the most daring suspicions of the other astute scholars.... A monograph which is sure to illuminate pathways that it has also opened the doors to."" -- Nachiket Chanchani * The Journal of Asian Studies * ""This book is highly recommended for academic and research libraries supporting research and study in art and architectural history, South Asian and Himalayan cultural studies, Buddhist and Hindu iconography, or Indology."" * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"