Author : BARBARA FORD
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780500976098
Until 1970, Tibet was an enigma to the western world. But with the opening of the Chinese borders there has been an upsurge of interest in the arts and crafts of the Land of Snows.
Author : Mimi Lipton
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Cole
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Rugs, Oriental
ISBN : 9780984519002
"This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, March 25 through August 22, 2011."
Author : Diana K. Myers
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Phakyab Rinpoche
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1608684628
In 2003, Tibetan lama Phakyab Rinpoche was admitted to the emergency clinic of the Program for Survivors of Torture at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital. After a dramatic escape from imprisonment in China, at the hands of authorities bent on uprooting Tibet’s traditional religion and culture, his ordeal had left him with life-threatening injuries, including gangrene of the right ankle. American doctors gave Rinpoche a shocking choice: accept leg amputation or risk a slow, painful death. An inner voice, however, prompted him to try an unconventional cure: meditation. He began an intensive spiritual routine that included thousands of hours of meditation over three years in a small Brooklyn studio. Against all scientific logic, his injuries gradually healed. In this vivid, passionate account, Sofia Stril-Rever relates the extraordinary experiences of Phakyab Rinpoche, who reveals the secret of the great healing powers that lie dormant within each of us.
Author : Madame Alexandra David-Neel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486119440
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Author : René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788173030499
Author : Laurence A. Waddell
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1602067236
The soaring peaks of the greatest mountain range on Earth have long drawn visitors from around the globe, and one of the most famous of the 19th century was British adventurer and scholar Laurence Waddell, who spent most of a decade and a half exploring the nations that cling to the sides of the mighty mountains, learning the ways of their peoples, and sharing his experiences with Western readers. Here, in this 1899 classic of Himalayan travel, Waddell introduces us to the challenges of traveling in the region, takes us on visits to Nepalese and Tibetan tea gardens, journeys to monasteries, palaces, and temples, and much more. Beautiful photos and drawings complement Waddell's exciting and gripping tales-he offers some of the first "evidence" for the mysterious creatures known as "yeti," for instance-and make this an essential work for anyone drawn to the dangerous beauty of the Himalayas. British archaeologist and Orientalist LAURENCE AUSTINE WADDELL (1854-1938) also wrote The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism (1894) and Lhasa and Its Mysteries (1905).
Author : Margi Gibb
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1921924993
Prepare to be swept away by a story that is intimate, true, and utterly compelling. Margi Gibb’s much-loved father dies and, with her immediate family largely gone, her life is changed irrevocably. Immersing herself more deeply in art and music, she travels to America to study the sacred art of the mandala, exploring the wisdom traditions of Indigenous Indian peoples in the process. Then after a serendipitous encounter back in Australia she travels to Dharamsala to care for children in an after school program at a Tibetan women's handicraft cooperative. Her underlying passion is to initiate guitar lessons for Tibetan refugees. What follows is unexpected. Margi’s developing bonds with two very different Tibetan men, Tenzin and Yonten, change her life in complex and enduring ways. Eventually she journeys to Tibet. Kissed by a Deer is a book about East and West. It is a passionate quest for the personal and intellectual truth that only comes through lived experience. Gibb’s story gives us amazing places, and wonderful characters, people we come to love and care about despite their failings. In its pages, wisdom searchingly finds its humble roots in the connections of heart, imagination and mind; in the midst of the act of living.
Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300213972
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
