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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications March 2000] Hardcover Very minor stain to back cover. Otherwise very good condition! [Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 9.11 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is an extraordinary encyclopedia of Buddhist icons. Illustrating the Rin 'byung brgya rtsa, the sNar 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 ad ...
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Boston, Wisdom Publications,] Hardcover First Edition Original cloth binding, 602 pages, 507 colour illustrations, faint stain, hardly descernable, near the top of the spine, front endpaper with a small discoloring there, otherwise ver good condition (the book was published without dust jacket). The famous 500 icons of Narthang / Tibet here in a quite unique coloured edition from 19th century Mongolia, which is now held at Zurich, is here published in this form for the first time. With full translation and informative texts about the background of this landmark project of Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism. The book accompanied an exhibition of the original manuscript at the Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, which was shown until 11 February 2001. The book always has been expensive, the price on publication was USD 240. Very heavy book, additional shipping likely. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 4300 [Icking, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Boston, Wisdom Publications,] Hardcover First Edition Original cloth binding, 602 pages, 507 colour illustrations, faint stain, hardly descernable, near the top of the spine, front endpaper with a small discoloring there, otherwise ver good condition (the book was published without dust jacket). The famous 500 icons of Narthang / Tibet here in a quite unique coloured edition from 19th century Mongolia, which is now held at Zurich, is here published in this form for the first time. With full translation and informative texts about the background of this landmark project of Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism. The book accompanied an exhibition of the original manuscript at the Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, which was shown until 11 February 2001. The book always has been expensive, the price on publication was USD 240. Very heavy book, additional shipping likely. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 4300 [Icking, Germany] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 9.11 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 9.11 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0861710983, ISBN13: 9780861710980, [publisher: Wisdom Publications (U.S.A.)] Hardcover pp. xix + 602 Illus. [Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]
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