Author : Loden Sherap Dagyab
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0861718100
In this fascinating study, Dagyab Rinpoche not only explains the nine best-known groups of Tibetan Buddhist symbols but also shows how they serve as bridges between our inner and outer worlds. As such, they can be used to point the way to ultimate reality and to transmit a reservoir of deep knowledge formed over thousands of years.
Author :
Publisher : Serindia Publications, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781932476033
Based on the author's previous publication The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs, this handbook contains an array of symbols and motifs, accompanied by succinct explanations. It provides treatment of the essential Tibetan religious figures, themes and motifs, both secular and religious.
Author : Robert Beer
Publisher : Shambhala
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 1999-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570624162
For artists, designers, and all with an interest in Buddhist and Tibetan art, this is the first exhaustive reference to the seemingly infinite variety of symbols found throughout Tibetan art in line drawings, paintings, and ritual objects. Hundreds of the author's line drawings depict all the major Tibetan symbols and motifs—landscapes, deities, animals, plants, gurus, mudras (ritual hand gestures), dragons, and other mythic creatures—ranging from complex mythological scenes to small, simple ornaments.
Author : Lokesh Chandra
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,73 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 : T. K. Nakagaki
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1611729335
A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate. The swastika has been used for over three thousand years by billions of people in many cultures and religions—including Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism—as an auspicious symbol of the sun and good fortune. However, beginning with its hijacking and misappropriation by Nazi Germany, it has also been used, and continues to be used, as a symbol of hate in the Western World. Hitler's device is in fact a "hooked cross." Rev. Nakagaki's book explains how and why these symbols got confused, and offers a path to peace, understanding, and reconciliation. Please note: Photographs in the digital edition of the books are in color. Photographs in the print edition are in black and white.
Author : Claude B. Levenson
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2003-03
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9782843235009
Author : Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Rich in detail and visually powerful, this compelling picture book provides insight into the intricate and profound world of Tibetan Buddhism. Striking images of sacred spaces, participants, art, and ritual choreography are used to explain such precepts as karma, emptiness, compassion, death and rebirth, the Eight Fold Path, and the processes of Tantric deity practice. 150 color and black-and-white photos.
Author : Herbert V. Guenther
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1994-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791419908
This book deals in narrative form with the theme of recovering lost wholenesswith the perennial question of beginnings and what role a human being must play in order to find meaning in his or her life.
Author : Angela Sumegi
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791474648
Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.
Author : Arjia Rinpoche
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1605291625
On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader. Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later. In his gripping memoir, Rinpoche relates the story of having been abandoned in his monastery as a young boy after witnessing the torture and arrest of his monastery family. In the years to come, Rinpoche survived under harsh Chinese rule, as he was forced into hard labor and endured continual public humiliation as part of Mao's Communist "reeducation." By turns moving, suspenseful, historical, and spiritual, Rinpoche's unique experiences provide a rare window into a tumultuous period of Chinese history and offer readers an uncommon glimpse inside a Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
