The mandala appears in many forms - painted, made of sand, modelled three-dimensionally or constructed completely in the mind of the meditator. This volume presents the art and philosophy of the intriguing design in 100 examples, including the Copper Palace of Padmasambhava from Bhutan, a painted and gilded star mandala from Japan and the Kalachakra Father-Mother from Tibet. In addition, a history and overview of mandala art throughout the Eastern world is presented, chronicling its development, beginning in India and moving to countries as far afield as Japan and Indonesia. An essay by Robert Thurman, Head of Tibet House, comments on uses of the mandala in Buddhist philosophy and mediation, describing esoteric visualizaiton practices intended to perfect the self. The volume is based on an exhibition at The Asia Society Galleries and Tibet House, New York.
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Robert Thurman holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. A founder of Tibet House New York, an organization dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture, he is the bestselling author of Inner Revolution.
Denise Patry Leidy is an associate curator in the department of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the author of several books on Asian art including Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Fifteenth Century China. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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If you are a practitioner of tantric buddhism this book will help you understand your visualization process. Also useful for art historians.
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