Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism (eBook)

Antoinette K. Gordon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016 | Digital Only
198 Seiten
Tuttle Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4629-1319-0 (ISBN)

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The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism is an authoritative text on the specifically Tibetan branch of Buddhism--one which possesses a rich visual history of Buddhist art and Iconagraphy.This book gives a descriptive outline of the principal gods in the Tibetan pantheon, tracing the main features and symbols that are used to denote each one. A Comprehensive illustrated list of the various ritual objects, talismans, symbols, mudras (symbolic hand poses), and asanas and vahanas (position of the lower limbs) that are used in the images of the gods is accompanied with a word list of the Sanskrit terms most commonly encountered in a study of Lamaism.A set of thirty-one thang-kas from the famous collection of Baron A. von Stael-Holstein, formerly of Peking, China, which came to America after the publication of the original edition of the book, has been included in this new and revised edition.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Zusatzinfo: b&w photos throughout, 1 color photo
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 230 x 230 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: buddhism books • buddhism history • buddhism history and teaching • dali lama • dali lama books • religious iconography • religious iconology • religious icons • Tibetan Buddhism • tibetan buddhist cannon • tibetan iconography • tibetan lamas • tibetan religion • tibet buddhism
• ISBN-10: 1-4629-1319-9 / 1462913199
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4629-1319-0 / 9781462913190