The Tibetan Art of Healing

Informationen zum Autor Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan artand culture, including The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing . He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ at theWellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by theNational Geographic Society as one of the seven ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his groundbreakingfield research in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorges. Romio Shrestha is a modern master of the Indo-Nepali-Tibetan Buddhist traditions of enlightenment art. Romio Shrestha’s Thangka’s can be found in many of the great collections of the world including The British Museum, The Victoria Albert Museum, London, The Buchheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History New York, National Museum Moscow, The Chester Beatty Library Dublin, The Voelkerkunde Museum Zurich as well as many private collections around the globe. Klappentext Based on a collection of Tibetan "thangkas" - scroll paintings portraying a Buddhist philosophy of healing - this volume presents works by a traditional artist using the ancient technique of painting with rich minerals. The Buddhist view of physiology, pathology, diagnosis and cure is illuminated. Vorwort An exquisitely beautiful collection of paintings rendered by Tibet's foremost traditional artist, Romio Shrestha, is both a glorious artwork in itself and an object of profound meditation Zusammenfassung Based on a collection of Tibetan "thangkas" - scroll paintings portraying a Buddhist philosophy of healing - this volume presents works by a traditional artist using the ancient technique of painting with rich minerals. The Buddhist view of physiology, pathology, diagnosis and cure is illuminated.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Baker, Ian A. Baker, Romio Shrestha
• Assisted by: Romio Shrestha (Illustration), Shrestha Romio (Illustration)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.1997
• EAN: 9780500279960
• ISBN: 978-0-500-27996-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 1050 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Tibet, RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, ART / Asian / Chinese, complementary medicine, Painting & paintings, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Individual artists, art monographs, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Paintings and painting, Tibetan Buddhism, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies, Buddhism;Yoga;Mindfulness;Religion;Spirituality;Asia;Travel