Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture

Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture
Author: Loden Sherap Dagyab
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: 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.

The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols

The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
Author:
Publisher: Serindia Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2003
Genre: 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.

The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs

The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
Author: Robert Beer
Publisher: Shambhala
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1999-10-12
Genre: 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.

Sacred Buddhist Symbols and Charms of Lamaism

Sacred Buddhist Symbols and Charms of Lamaism
Author: L. Austine Waddell
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781425366919

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Tibetan Art

Tibetan Art
Author: Lokesh Chandra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: 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.

The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross

The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross
Author: T. K. Nakagaki
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611729335

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.

Wholeness Lost and Wholeness Regained

Wholeness Lost and Wholeness Regained
Author: Herbert V. Guenther
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1994-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791419908

This book deals in narrative form with the theme of recovering lost wholeness—with the perennial question of beginnings and what role a human being must play in order to find meaning in his or her life.

Inside Tibetan Buddhism

Inside Tibetan Buddhism
Author: Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1995
Genre: 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.