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The Secret Mandala - Midnight Edition

Author : Stuart Royce

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 15,85 MB

Release : 2016-09-13

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ISBN : 9781537647364

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The Secret Mandala - Midnight Edition This is an advanced colouring book with some extremely intricate white on black images, an inverted version of the standard book. The benefit of the black background? you don't have to worry too much about keeping in the lines! But please be warned: If extreme detail is not your thing, just don't buy this, or at least look at the flip through on my author page (scroll to bottom of description for link) and samples on pinterest first. If you're not going to enjoy it, then it's pointless to buy it in the first place, colour what you enjoy. Black background, white lines. 130 Single sided pages. 8.5" x 11" dimension. Glossy cover. Flick-book Samples: https: //www.pinterest.com/stuartroyce/the-secret-mandala-midnight-edition/ See my author page and Stu Royce on YouTube for full flip-through videos Cover was Coloured by talented competition winner Austin Magruder, and he along with Cheryl Colors and Diniah have also contributed a piece for the book's interior, please be sure to tag them when sharing their pieces, details inside. Thanks for the contributions and all the support. Other books by Stu Royce: Eclectica: Adult Colouring Escapism (Double-Sided - for pencils etc) Eclectica: Adult Colouring Escapism (New Edition) (Single-Sided - for markers etc) Circolour: Mandalas & Patterns Colourful Christmas Diversity: Illustrations & Patterns Tanzia https: //www.amazon.com/Stuart-Royce/e/B00X8BS7D0 https: //www.amazon.co.uk/Stuart-Royce/e/B00X8BS7D0



Mandala Girls Collection

Author : Grazia Salvo

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Page : 40 pages

File Size : 44,7 MB

Release : 2020-12-02

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ISBN :

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This is the only coloring book on the market that features portraits of beautiful mandala girls, entirely hand-drawn in grayscale by the talented Italian artist Grazia Salvo. Suitable for all ages. Contains 16 portraits of fabulous girls with mandala decorations on their face. You will never have colored anything like this before.Look at the back cover to see all the content in this truly unique book.What are you waiting for, immerse yourself in this new coloring adventure that will unleash your imagination and give you the opportunity to create new challenges with your colors!Each image is single-sided printed on the best paper supplied by Amazon. The paper is medium thin (100 gsm) but still lends itself to several layers of color. Watercolors and markers can also be used with caution, using a sheet of cardboard between one page and another.To discover the other coloring books of this artist, follow her on her author's page here on Amazon, on Instagram: @creatureincantate and on Facebook: @graziasalvoartOn Instagram and Pinterest you will find many colors from the books of this artist. Look for them with the hashtag #graziasalvo and remember to use this same hashtag when you publish your colors on social networks. The artist is looking forward to seeing you!Coloring book for womenMandala coloring bookFashion coloring bookPortraits coloring book



The Peace Mandala Coloring Book

Author : Monique Mandali

Publisher : Mandali Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,2 MB

Release : 2000-07

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ISBN : 9781585920617

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Monique Mandali, author of three popular volumes of Everyone's Mandala Colouring Books, is celebrating the millennium by bringing children together in her fourth colouring book. "Mandalas are found in all cultures and truly express unity of spirit within humanity's diversity," says Monique. "I hope that colouring Peace Mandalas designed by girls and boys from around the world will spread seeds of harmony for the next one thousand years." Colouring mandalas is relaxing, soothing the body, mind, and spirit, and is a fun activity for anyone ages 4 to 104.



An Illustrated History of the Mandala

Author : Kimiaki Tanaka

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 681 pages

File Size : 18,29 MB

Release : 2018-12-04

Category : History

ISBN : 1614292922

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Everyone’s heard of mandalas; now we have a uniquely rich history and explanation of their history and meaning. This book is a history of the genesis and development of the mandala from the fifth and sixth centuries, when the mandala first appeared in India, to the eleventh century, when the Kalacakratantra appeared just before the disappearance of Buddhism in India. The 600 years of Indian esoteric Buddhism that concluded the 1,700-year history of Indian Buddhism could be said to have been the history of the development of the mandala. (The Kalacakratantra integrated earlier mandala theories into a single system and established a monumental system unprecedented in the history of esoteric Buddhism. It was thus the culmination of the development of Indian Buddhism over a period of 1,700 years.) The analysis is at the micro level and includes numerous illustrations and charts. Particular attention is paid to proper names, mudras, and mantras that have been overlooked by scholars in philosophy and doctrine, and the author tackles issues that cannot be explained solely from a historical viewpoint, such as geometric patterns, the arrangement of deities, the colors, and their meaning in Buddhist doctrine.



Localizing Paradise

Author : D. Max Moerman

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 44,23 MB

Release : 2020-03-23

Category : Religion

ISBN : 168417399X

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"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals—about death, salvation, gender, and authority—were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano’s particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."



The Treasury of Knowledge, Book Six, Parts One and Two

Author : Jamgon Kongtru Lodro Taye

Publisher : Shambhala Publications

Page : 994 pages

File Size : 36,42 MB

Release : 2013-01-08

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1559393890

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Jamgön Kongtrul’s encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest—concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge to be studied prior to the cultivation of reflection and discriminative awareness. The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume, respectively concern Indo-Tibetan classical learning and Buddhist phenomenology. The former analyzes the traditional subjects of phonology and Sanskrit grammar, logic, fine art, and medicine, along with astrology, poetics, prosody, synonymics, and dramaturgy. The principal non-Buddhist philosophical systems of ancient India are then summarized and contrasted with the hierarchical meditative concentrations and formless absorptions through which the “summit of cyclic existence” can genuinely be attained. Part Two examines the phenomenological structures of Abhidharma—the shared inheritance of all Buddhist traditions—from three distinct perspectives, corresponding to the three successive turnings of the doctrinal wheel.



The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Parts One and Two

Author : Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

Publisher : Shambhala Publications

Page : 994 pages

File Size : 47,41 MB

Release : 2013-01-08

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1559397314

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Jamgön Kongtrul’s encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest—concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge to be studied prior to the cultivation of reflection and discriminative awareness. The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume, respectively concern Indo-Tibetan classical learning and Buddhist phenomenology. The former analyzes the traditional subjects of phonology and Sanskrit grammar, logic, fine art, and medicine, along with astrology, poetics, prosody, synonymics, and dramaturgy. The principal non-Buddhist philosophical systems of ancient India are then summarized and contrasted with the hierarchical meditative concentrations and formless absorptions through which the "summit of cyclic existence" can genuinely be attained. Part Two examines the phenomenological structures of Abhidharma—the shared inheritance of all Buddhist traditions—from three distinct perspectives, corresponding to the three successive turnings of the doctrinal wheel.



The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set

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Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 1725 pages

File Size : 19,16 MB

Release : 2014-04-23

Category : History

ISBN : 0199720789

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The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long tradition of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic praise poetry and the first monument of specifically Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian religious history and high literature. This new translation represents the first complete scholarly translation into English in over a century and utilizes the results of the intense research of the last century on the language and the ritual system of the text. The focus of this translation is on the poetic techniques and structures utilized by the bards and on the ways that the poetry intersects with and dynamically expresses the ritual underpinnings of the text.



The Rigveda

Author : Stephanie W. Jamison

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 1725 pages

File Size : 36,28 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 0199370184

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The first complete English translation in over a century of the Rigveda, the oldest Sanskrit text. Its thousand hymns, of remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication, are crucial to the understanding of the Indo-Iranian oral tradition from which they emerged and the rich flowering of Indian religious and literary expressions that followed it.



Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet

Author : Kurt Behrendt

Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 22,58 MB

Release : 2024-09-16

Category : Art

ISBN : 1588397823

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A mandala is a diagram of the universe—a map of true reality intended to provide a focus for Buddhist religious practice and inspire the devout. This book highlights the distinctive Tibetan approach to creating mandalas, exploring how it crossed over from India into Tibet, and how continuous exchanges of art and ideas between the two cultures, led by monks and spiritual teachers, gave rise to a uniquely Tibetan style of Buddhist imagery. Featuring more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and ritual objects, this superbly illustrated volume reflects the dazzling complexities of the Tibetan imagery that has provided a foundation for mandalas through the centuries. Most notably, a mesmerizing installation by the Tibetan American artist Tenzing Rigdol (b. 1982), specially created for the accompanying exhibition and published here for the first time, offers contemporary audiences a way of interrogating and understanding their world and underscores how this ancient tradition remains a vibrant living practice.