Author : Matthew Smith
Publisher : Beyond Words
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781582706399
Express your inner artist while finding your inner peace as you color the intricately lush and stunning drawings by artist Matthew Smith. His motifs bring to life mythic struggles of man versus beast that will rouse your creative muse.
Author : Robert Beer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1611803527
Sacred art presented as coloring templates for contemplation and creativity—stunning and detailed artwork from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Drawing on his brush paintings in The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs and other works, Robert Beer has selected 50 images meant to be used as templates for coloring. The book features figures spanning centuries of the tradition, including spiritual adventurers, rebellious saints, and enlightened Tantric masters. The detailed artwork is elegant and meaningful—drawing on Buddhist teachings to give each piece greater depth.
Author : Robert Beer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1611803519
Connect with the sacred art of Buddhism through the creative act of coloring. Buddhist art is rich with symbolism and meaning. Taking the time to color and interact with these symbols and motifs is a simple yet profound way to practice mindfulness and move closer to a greater awareness of one’s own essential nature. The drawings here—all meticulously painted by hand with a small sable brush—relate to the state of being completely awakened and evoke a deep sense of calm and stillness. A concise description of each drawing unravels the many layers of meaning contained within this sacred art, inviting a deeper connection with these drawings.
Author : Ashlyn Varner
Publisher : Liferich
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781489704696
Our children are our hope for the future of the world we live in. I want to encourage my children, and yours, to open their eyes, their heart, and their sense of awareness to see beyond the mundane and see the beauty in a bird singing, the sun shinning, and a child laughing. To find the joy and beauty that is inside them and if they look close to see it everyone they meet. If we could teach this to our children, what a beautiful world the future will be. I hope my little book is a start in that direction.
Author : Tammy Letherer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631524267
Can you come sit at the table? Tammy Letherer’s husband of twelve years spoke these words on a Tuesday night, just before Christmas, after he had put their three children in bed. He had a piece of paper and two fingers of scotch in front of him. As he read from the list in his hand, his next words would shatter her world and destroy every assumption she'd ever made about love, friendship, and faithfulness. In The Buddha at My Table, Letherer describes―in honest, sometimes painful detail―the dismantling of a marriage that encompasses the ordinary and the surreal, including the night she finds a silent, smiling Thai monk sitting at the same dining room table. It’s this unexpected visitation, this personification of peace, that sticks with her as she listens to her husband reveal hurtful, shocking things―that he never loved her, he doesn’t believe in monogamy, and he wants to “wrap things up” with her in four weeks―and allows her to find the blessing in her husband’s betrayal. Ultimately, it’s when she realizes that she is participating in her life, not at its mercy, that she discovers the path to freedom.
Author : Mark W. McGinnis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0834826011
Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.
Author : Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243460
"Eminently readable and extremely meaningful. The contributors tackle essential questions about the relationship of art and life. The book is also very timely, offering a way to approach Buddhism through unexpected channels."--Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Author : Ben Meulenbeld
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 24,59 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 : Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520242084
"The relations between eastern and western cultures have long been a neglected topic, and this careful and intelligent look at a small but significant part of those relations is most welcome."--Thomas McEvilley, author of The Shape of Ancient Thought "How wonderful that Jacquelynn Baas has seen the light of the Buddha's smile shining from faraway Asia into the realm of the art of modern times in what we think of as the West! . . . Her work reveals how some of our most influential artists explored and expressed the sophisticated perceptions and joyful energy emanating from the realm of Buddhist Asia."--Robert A. F. Thurman "As a Buddhist scholar and artist I welcome this thoughtful and richly detailed study of how many aspects of Buddhism have stimulated, invigorated, and enriched Western arts over the past 150 years."--Stephen Addiss, author of The Art of Zen "A crucial contribution to modern art studies, this high-spirited text surveys Western artists awakened by the wisdom of the East, from Monet and Duchamp to O'Keeffe to Martin. It is a thoughtful book about thoughtful artists, their values and their visions, with a lot to offer general readers and specialists alike."--Charles Stuckey, Associate Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Author : Meher McArthur
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500284285
"A concise, accessible primer to the intricate world of Buddhist art." Publishers Weekly"
