Author : Ben Meulenbeld
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789074597449
The thangka is a way for Tibetan Buddhist monks to bring the life and teachings of the Buddha to the people through the visual medium of paint. These paintings were rolled up and taken on journeys, used as traveling altars, or hung when certain deitieswere honored. Meulenbeld takes us through 37 thangkas that present a pictorial journey of the life of Buddha, Siddhartha Guatama, and the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism. 37 color plates. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Author : Tiffani H. Rezende
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 818647045X
"This is a sacred art, a path which can take you to enlightenment." When a Mongolian lama whispered these words to her, she realized she was meant to follow this path. Tiffani H. Rezende was born in Brazil in 1981. Her spiritual search took her through an alternative community, a marine life, an Australian aboriginal reserve, the Russian wilderness and finally to the Mongolia steppes, where she saw Thangka painting for the first time. She followed the suggestion from her lama to study in Dharamsala in northern India, the seat of H. H. the Dalai Lama in exile. There she was accepted as the first western student by the Norbulingka Institute and became a trained Thangka artist. Described with humour and sensibility, a daily life as an apprentice in the art of Thangka painting.
Author : Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1647420946
What if you set out to travel the world and got sidetracked in a Himalayan sewing workshop? What if that sidetrack turned out to be your life’s path—your way home? Part art book, part memoir, part spiritual travelogue, Threads of Awakening is a delightful and inspiring blend of adventure and introspection. Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo shares her experience as a California woman traveling to the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India to manage an economic development fund, only to wind up sewing pictures of Buddha instead. Through her remarkable journey, she discovered that a path is made by walking it—and that some of the best paths are made by walking off course. For more than 500 years, Tibetans have been creating sacred images from pieces of silk. Much rarer than paintings and sculptures, these stitched fabric thangkas are among Tibet's finest artworks. Leslie studied this little-known textile art with two of its brightest living masters and let herself discover where curiosity and devotion can lead. In this book, she reveals the unique stitches of an ancient needlework tradition, introduces the Buddhist deities it depicts, and shares insights into the compassion, interdependence, and possibility they embody. Includes 49 full-color photos and a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
Author : David Paul Jackson
Publisher : Serindia Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)
ISBN : 9781932476293
This book is the only detailed description of the techniques and principles of the sacred art of Tibetan scroll painting.
Author : David Paul Jackson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN :
Describes the techniques of the sacred art of Tibetan scroll painting.
Author : Konchog Lhadrepa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834840618
A presentation on the Tibetan Buddhist path to enlightenment, through the lens of an artist's eye and experience. The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan Buddhist path, from preliminary practices through enlightenment, from the artist's perspective. With profound wisdom, he shows how visual representations of the sacred in paintings, sculptures, mandalas, and stupas can be an essential support to practice throughout the path. This work, based on the author's landmark Tibetan text, The Path to Liberation, includes basic Buddhist teachings and practices, clearly pointing out the relevance of these for both the sacred artist and the practitioner, along with an overview of the history and iconography of Buddhist art.
Author : John Crook
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2001-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9788120812017
Preface, PART One: Introduction to the Philosophy of Navya-Nyaya, PART Two: Summaries of Works, Notes, Index.
Author : Lokesh Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
The rich artistic heritage of Tibet reveals the depths of meditations of great masters, translated into the majestic abundance of iconic symbols that take the form of three-dimensional images or two-dimensional thankas. Tibetan Art is a comprehensive introduction to the complex iconography of thankas. It provides a glimpse of the mindground of this art and the land where it flourished. Although Tibetan Art portrays the historic Buddha Sakyamuni, the arhats, spiritual masters, great lamas, and founders of different religious lineages, the preponderance of its images depict supramundane beings. Predominantly these are: the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, female deities, protectors or tutelary gods (yi-dams), defenders of the faith, guardians of the four cardinal points, minor deities and supernatural beings.
Author : Anjan Chakraverty
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
This book is a lucid account of thangka painting. A form of scroll painting integral to Tibetan Buddhist worship. It introduces readers to the irirdescence of colours representing the archetypal Buddhist images of good and evil. It features thangkas from renowned collections the world over.
Author : Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Constructed between 1945 and 1947 by Jacques Marchais (the professional name of Jacqueline Klauber), the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art in Staten Island houses more than 1200 pieces of Tibetan Buddhist art from China and Mongolia, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Two essays about the history of the museum and the history of Tibetan Buddhism open the catalogue, which contains 169 objects from the museum's collections.
