Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery

Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery
Author: Romio Shrestha
Publisher: Mandala Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781608870226

In the tradition of Celestial Gallery, this unique collection of striking Tibetan-style thangka paintings of the Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery are presented together for the first time, in this book-shelf sized format. Reproduced from the master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks, who render postmodern interpretations of an age-old Tibetan artistic tradition. Made from malachite, lapis and marigolds and painted at times with just three hairs of a cat's tail, these paintings are produced in hauntingly powerful detail. Goddesses depicted include: "the goddesses of the arts" Saraswati; "the Divine Mother" White Tara a protector and preserver; "the Protectress " Green Tara : "the Dark Goddesses" Palden Lhamo, guardian of the lineage of the Dalai Lamas; and Kali, a wild and uncontrollable consort of Shiva, a devotee of time and keeper of the shadows within ourselves.

Celestial Gallery

Celestial Gallery
Author: Romio Shrestha
Publisher: Mandala Publishing Group
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781932771213

Opening the oversized pages of Celestial Gallery is akin to entering a grand museum. This impressive, high-quality production features White Tara, Green Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestials, while lending new meaning to the terms full-size and full-color. Four color printing with spot varnish throughout.

Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery

Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery
Author: Romio Shrestha
Publisher: Mandala Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781608871704

The third edition in the Celestial Gallery series, Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery collects Romio Shrestha's rarest and previously unpublished t’angkas, surveying the many incarnations of the Buddha. In the tradition of Celestial Gallery and Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery, Romio Shrestha’s latest art book gathers striking Tibetan-style mandala paintings featuring the Buddha. These hauntingly powerful paintings depict the life of the deity in eloquent detail and render postmodern interpretations of an age-old Tibetan artistic tradition in which images are painstakingly created using malachite, lapis, and marigolds, and painted at times with three hairs of a cat’s tail. These exquisite portrayals of the celestial spheres, known as mandalas, invite viewers to meditate on the Buddha’s message of love, completion, and connectedness. Also available in a lavishly illustrated oversize edition.

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.

Celestial Gallery Meditation Deck

Celestial Gallery Meditation Deck
Author: Romio Shrestha
Publisher: Mandala Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781932771749

Following the bestselling "Celestial Gallery," comes a portable alter and beautifully oversized meditation cards which include new and inspired insights, prayers and blessings from the wisdom journals of visionary Nepali thangka artisan Romio Shrestha. Never before rendered in this prayerful format, keys to the offerings of the divine deities--including Buddha Sakyamuni, Green Tara, White Tara, Amitabha and more--honored in these magnificent scroll paintings can be discovered through guided practice and meditation.

Deities of Tibetan Buddhism

Deities of Tibetan Buddhism
Author: Martin Willson
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780861710980

An extraordinary encyclopedia of Buddhist icons. Illustrating the Rin 'byung brgya rtsa, the Nar thang brgya rtsa, and the Vajravali, the book is based on a collection of over five hundred images of Tibetan deities. The images, presented in the book at full scale, were originally created by a master artist in the early nineteenth century to serve as initiation cards (tsakli). The original tsakli were woodblock prints, hand colored at the request of a Ch'ing Dynasty nobleman who had received the initiations. Such cards are used in ceremonies to introduce the practitioner to the deity and his or her practice. The paintings are housed in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is also an indispensable reference tool for Tibetologists, students of Mahayana Buddhism, and museum curators. Its extensive supplementary materials include English translations of the basic invocation texts; the associated visualization with descriptions of the deities' postures, attributes, and colors; and the dharanis and mantras used in their invocation. Co-editor Martin Willson spent more than a decade translating and documenting this work. He has provided detailed explanations of technical terms, enlightening explanatory notes, and glossaries documenting the discrepancies in the depictions. The extensive pictorial index, featuring drawings and text by Robert Beer, explains the symbolic meaning behind the deities' implements and adornments. The cross-referenced indices for Tibetan, Sanskrit, Mongolian, and English names and terms provide quick access to vast amounts of information. Co-editor Martin Brauen and the technical staff of the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich have documented the relationship between this and other sets of initiation cards that exist elsewhere, as well as detailing the construction materials and methods involved in producing this set. Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is a reference book without peer, essential for any serious student of Tibetan and East Asian art and religion.

Buddhist Symbolism in Tibetan Thangkas

Buddhist Symbolism in Tibetan Thangkas
Author: Ben Meulenbeld
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2001
Genre: 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.

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.

Tibetan Thakgka Painting

Tibetan Thakgka Painting
Author: David Paul Jackson
Publisher: Serindia Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)
ISBN: 9781932476293

This book is the only detailed description of the techniques and principles of the sacred art of Tibetan scroll painting.