Recent Changes to this Homepage
This page was first published in 2003 to document and showcase my research work. Temporarily it also has served my teaching, but that section remains currently inactive.
25.11.2011: Update of all CV related sections.
5.9.2011: Update of the main page and research section.
22.8.2011: Update of main page and CV details.
1.6.2011: Update of publications and a few other details.
24.4.2011: Finally the first part of the research section is back online. Other pages have been updated and additional banners have been added.
27.2.2011: At least the basic information, that is the professionally most relevant "myself" section, is on the new site. There are also more than hundred web banners displaying at random. The rest of the page still needs a lot of work and will need some time.
23.2.2011: The improved main page—now with changing banner picture—became a template for the other pages and the myself page has been added, with all pdf downloads updated. Minor tweaks have been applied to all pages and while other sections are still being worked on.
21.2.2011: After a long period of neglect, and an extended period of construction I have renewed my homepage completely. The page now features a more contemporary design, has a css-based layout and a larger emphasis on pictures. I hope this new appearance is more fun to read, it certainly was fun building. For this first day only the main page is up.
30.12.2009: Myself section updated.
3.5.2009: New design and Myself section updated.
11.11.2006: Research and Myself sections updated.
12.12.2005: Minor update of the Research and Myself sections
02.08.2005: Research and Myself sections, including all CV related information, updated.
13.05.2005: Publications, Lectures and CV updated.
15.08.2004: Publications, Lectures and CV updated.
05.04.2004: Publications, CV and research section updated.
12.01.2004: Publications, CV and research section updated. Lecture link deactivated.
17.10.2003: Teaching Experience added to Myself section. Lecture link activated (German).
3.9.2003: Myself and Research sections updated.
8.5.2003: This personal homepage has been separated from the content pages which are now found on an official project homepage dedicated to > Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Art (ITBA). That site now contains the general information on diverse sites as well as the material complementary to published works. The German language part serving my lecture has been deactivated.
News Sidebar
The Gandhara exhibit at the Asia Society is finally on view, but sadly only until October 31 2011.
08/09/2011
My first exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art, Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection will be on view from 11th March onwards. It will also contain a room dedicated to life-size facsimiles of some of the Lhasa Lukhang's murals.
02/20/2011
The publication on Wanla still will need a while. Too much to do, too little motivation.
24/12/2010
The "Auspicious Three-Storied Temple" of Wanla, as it is called in an inscription inside the temple, is located in a side valley near Lamayuru in Ladakh.
Technical Information
The design of the site has been chosen to get away from the common portrait web site layout and to enable large picture banners. Another goal was to use CSS throughout, including layout. After some back and forth, I finally made the site in Dreamweaver CS3, , even though this version of the program does not fully support the CSS implementation I used. This CSS layout is based on a flexible grid example of YAML (= yet another multi column layout).
In between I tried many other programs for restructuring, since Dreamweaver, which I had is far from being intuitive. However, iWeb is too restricted, RapidWeaver not much better and a disappointment and Flux, which I tested for that purpose only, was equally difficult for implementing a YAML based layout.
