Tibetan Buddhism: People, Culture, Art


Meeting the Buddhas (ref..B606)  Click Here    £ 16.99  
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Click Here Vessantara.

This book provides an authoritative and detailed guide to buddhas, bodhisattvas and tantric deities. The text is supported by 26 full colour plates and many illustrations. This book helps us find a correct understanding of visualisation and practice as well as being a most excellent work of reference.
Lord of the Dance - the autobiography of a Tibetan Lama (ref..B605)  Click Here    £ 13.99  
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Click Here Chagdud Tulku

This autobiography can be read on many levels - as a colourful and often humorous adventure story; as an inner, spiritual journey; and as a teaching on how one person attains the perspective of absolute truth amid life's uncertainty. As such it is both inspiring and encouraging and highly relevant to anyone who seeks ultimate meaning in this time of dire prediction.

Paperback; 248 pages.
Buddha's Lions - The Lives of The Eighty-Four Siddhas (ref..B604)  Click Here       
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Click Here Abhayadatta; Translated by James B. Robinson.

From farmers and wood-gatherers to royal ministers, scholars, and kings: the great siddhas - bearers of enlightened knowledge - came from widely divergent backgrounds. Yet each found within their way of life the keys to realisation. Abhayadatta's account of eighty-four great siddhas offers insight into the Vajrayana, the path that transforms ordinary experiences into opportunities for awakening. These stories reveal that the doorway to enlightenment is close at hand, and that the freedom found by the siddhas is as available now as in ages past.

The book contains information on iconography and other notes; the Tibetan text is also included.

Paperback; 397 pages.
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa. (ref..B601)  Click Here    £ 12.95  
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Click Here In this book, Ken Holmes draws on a quarter-century of experience close to the senior lamas of the Kagyu tradition, including the 16th Karmapa. He provides information about the land of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism to set the context for an authoritative and insightful account of the Karmapa and his uniqueness, lineage and reincarnation.

The book contains many illustrations and includes 16 pages of full colour photographs.

Paperback; 152 pages.
The Life of Milarepa. (ref..B602)  Click Here    £ 11.95  
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Click Here Milarepa is perhaps the most renouned saint in Tibetan Buddhist history. This illustrated book provides a fascinating account of his life in the 11th Century as he developed from an avenging black magician to a supremely powerful yogin. The book can be read at various levels. It is a graphic folk tale full of magic, disaster, feuds, deceptions and humour; but also it presents us with an inspirational quest for spiritual perfection whilst at the same time providing an insightful introduction to Tibetan Buddhism.


paperback; 220 pages.
The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs. (ref..B603)  Click Here    £ 40.00  
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Click Here Robert Beer is a British artist who has studied and practiced Tibetan thangka painting for 30 years. This book on the sacred art of Tibet is the result of a lifetime's research and reflection on the inner and often hidden meanings and origins encapsulated in this complex iconographical tradition. The book contains several thousand individual drawings that illustrate the many variations in style, lineages and individual expression in Tibetan sacred art. The authoritative text interweaves the origins, meanings and functions of these symbols within the Buddhist tradition.

A most excellent reference book for all those interested in Tibetan Buddhist art and symbolism.

Hardback; 372 pages

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