From the website:
LOTB is the first full-scale study of the life of the Buddha in a Tibetan setting. Scholars of Buddhist traditions in other regions of Asia have explored the synergies between Buddhist temple murals, narrative literature, and the architectural setting and ritual practices of the institutions that helped produce them. Such work has focused on, for example, sites at Ajanta in India, Dunhuang in China, and Borobudur in Indonesia. The unique Tibetan archive of visual and literary materials extant for Jonang allows us to explore issues such as the planning and design of visual narratives, the relationships between written and painted life stories, the economies of artistic production in a monastic setting, and forms of institutionally sponsored ritual consecration and worship.