PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS ABOUT SOUTH ASIA
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada
Nepal: Nostalgia and Modernity
Marg, Bombay, 2012
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada
Himalayas at a Crossroads
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, 1987
Published by Dipesh Risal
Jung Bahadur’s Nepal
Amazon, 2023
Authored by Deepak Shimkhada
Nepal to California
Indic Foundation, 2022
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada & Phyllis Herman
The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: The Goddess Traditions of Asia
Cambridge Scholarly Press, England, 2008
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada
Nepal: Historical Study of a Hindu Kingdom
Mandala Book Point, 2023
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada, Iswari Pandey, Santosh Khadka and Tika Lamsal
Nepal, a Shangri-la? Narratives of Culture, Contact and Memory
Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, 2022
BOOKS BY PRATAPADITYA PAL
Tibetan Paintings: A Study of Tibetan Thankas, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries
Sotheby Publications (1984)
A Buddhist Paradise: The Murals of Alchi, Western Himalayas (with Lionel Fournier)
Visual Dharma Publications (1982)
The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection
MIT Press (1977)
Nepal: Where the Gods are Young
Asia Society (1976)
The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection
New Orleans Museum of Art (2011)
Bronzes of Kashmir
Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (1975)
Aspects of Indian Art. Papers Presented in a Symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
October 1970 (editor), EJ Brill (1972)
From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India, 1757–1930 (with Vidya Dahejia), Cornell University Press (1986)
(with Vidya Dahejia), Cornell University Press (1986)
Indian Sculpture, (catalog of the LACMA collections): Volume 1 (to 700 AD, 1992), Volume II (700-1800, 1988)
University of California Press
The Art of Tibet
Asia Society (1969)
The Arts of Nepal. Part I. Sculpture
EJ Brill (1974)
Light of Asia: Buddha Sakyamuni
Asian Art, LACMA (1984)
Icons of Piety, Images of Whimsy: Asian Terra Cottas
Walter Grounds Collection, LACMA (1987)
Goddess Durga: The Power and The Glory
Marg Publications (2009)
The Art and Architecture of Ancient Kashmir
Marg Publications (1989)
The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago
(with Betty Seid), Art Institute of Chicago (2002)
Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Vol. I. Art from the Indian Subcontinent
Yale University Press (2003)
The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting from the Paul F. Walter Collection
Pierpont Morgan Library (1978)
Art of Tibet: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection
University of California Press (1984)
OUR ARTICLES
“The Sound of Dhime: Identity of the Jyapu People” in Nepal: A Shangri-La? Narratives of Culture, Contact, and Memory. Kathmandu: Mandala Books
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada, et al. Kathmandu: Mandala Books (2022)
The Cosmic Dance of Kali and the Black Hole coauthored with LaChelle Schilling, p.178-197 in South Asian Studies: Bridging Cultures
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada, SASA Books (2020)
Uterus, p. 290-296 in She Rises: What Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3
Edited by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, et al., Mago publishers (2019)
Finding our agency and awareness of Seeds of Life, co-authored with LaChelle Schilling, p. 351-359 in She Rises: What Goddess Feminism, Activism, and Spirituality? Volume 3
Edited by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, et al., Mago publishers, (2019)
Sacred Grove: The Playground of the Gods in Modern Hinduism in Text and Context
Edited by Lavanya Vemsani, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing (2018)
Nepali Hindus in Southern California, in Contemporary Hinduism
Edited by P. Pratap Kumar, Durham: Acumen (2013)
Kumari: Today and Tomorrow, in Nepal: Nostalgia and Modernity
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada, Marg Publishers, Mumbai (2011)
Shamanic Healing: A Jhankri in the City in Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia
Edited by Fabrizio M. Ferrari, Routledge Publishers, UK (2010)
Goma: An Embodiment of the Goddess in The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia
Edited by Deepak Shimkhada and Phyllis K. Herman, Cambridge Scholars Press (2008)
Being in Love with God is not Enough: Social Reform by Basavanna Through Bhakti in Sangama: Confluence of Art and Architecture
Edited by Nalini Rao, Originals, Delhi (2005)
“Death: Never Done Grieving”, in Journal of Dharma Studies 6(3):1-1
December 2023. DOI:10.1007/s42240-023-00156-7. License CC BY 4.0
“Tushā Hiti: The Origin and Significance of the Name” in Monsoon: The Journal of South Asian Studies Association, Vol.1, No. 1, pp. 11–19
(2022)
“Mata Tirtha: A Sacred Geography” in Journal of Dharma Studies
April, 2019
“Return to the womb: feminine creative imagery of arghya in a Tantric ritual” in International Journal of Dharma Studies
Deepak Shimkhada with Michael Reading (2015) 3:12
“The Date of the Chandi Murals in the Hanuman Dhoka Palace: Where History and Faith Meet”
AsianArt.com (2014)
“Expressions of Love: Images from the 1648 Bhagavata Purana Manuscript”, Exemplar: The Journal of the South Asian Studies Association
Deepak Shimkhada with Adam Pave (2011)
“The Future of Nepal’s “Living” Goddess: Is Her Death Necessary?”
AsianArt.com (2008)
Oil Lamps as Expressions of Devotion”
Marg (Mumbai, India), pp. 102–103 (2007)
“Book Review, Ethnic Revival and Religious Turmoil: Identities and Representations in the Himalayas”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.64, No.4, pp
1059–1061, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Pascale Dollfus (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press (2005)
“Erotic Body & Exotic Costumes”
Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress on Research in Dance, Claremont, California, pp. 30– 36 (2000)
“Wind Horses: Prayer Flags in the Himalayas”
Arts of Asia, (Hong Kong), Oct–Nov (1990)
“Narayana: The Sleeping Vishnu” in Arts of Asia (Hong Kong), Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan–Feb), pp. 152–155
Deepak Shimkhada with Muriel Reeves (1989)
“Forms of Nepali Folk Dance”
olk Dance Scene, November, Volume 23, Number 8, p. 12–14 (1988)
“Interaction between Painting and Architecture in Nepali Art”
Himalayan Research Bulletin (New York: Cornell University), Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter, PP. 20–22 (1986)
“The Masquerading Sun: A Unique Image from Nepal”
Artibus Asiae (Switzerland), University of New York, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 223–230 (1984)
“Pratapamalla’s Pilgrimage: An Historical Painting from Nepal”
Oriental Art (London), Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter pp. 368–70 (1984)
“Museum without Walls: Wayside Sculptures in the Kathmandu Valley”
Arts of Asia (Hong Kong), Vol. 14, No. 4, July–August, pp. 97–100 (1984)
A Preliminary Study of the Game of Karma in India, Nepal, and Tibet”
Artibus Asiae (Switzerland: Institute of Fine Arts, New York), Vol. LXIV, No. 4, pp. 308–322 (1983)
“The Sunken Bath of Siddhinarasimha Malla in Patan”
Orientations, Vol. 14, No. 7, July, pp. 46–49 (1983)
“Measure of Karma: Origin and Iconography of Nagapasa in Nepali Painting”
Himalayan Research Bulletin, Cornell University: (Ithaca, New York) Vol. 11, No. 1, Winter, pp. 12–16 (1982)
“Nepali Paintings and the Rajput Style”
Arts of Asia, Vol. 4, No. 5, Sept–Oct, pp. 38–43 (1973)