A fresh appraisal of this region's cultural legacy, Tibet is a treasure of images set against the broader background of Tibetan wisdom, spirituality, and mythology.
With a wealth of specially commissioned artworks and magnificent full-color photographs, Tibet is a superb pictorial record of one of the world's most fascinating cultures. It reveals the broad repertoire of Tibetan symbols and motifs and presents the art of Tibet, from its most monumental temples to its most exquisitely detailed statues of Buddhas, deities, and saints.
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MICHAEL WILLIS, Ph.D., is a curator of the North Indian and Himalayan collections in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. He has published extensively on the sacred architecture, inscriptions, and sculpture of Asia, and was an area editor (South Asia) for Macmillan's 35-volume Dictionary of Art (1996).
"Tibet" is a richly illustrated introduction to this extraordinary culture, presenting the art in all its glory. Examples range from monumental temples and vivid wall paintings to forests of prayer flags and exquisitely detailed devotional statues of Buddhas, deities, and saints.
The book covers themes that have long preoccupied the popular imagination, including: the intricate, multicolored mandalas, which are a vision of the entire, unfolding universe; the hero-saints, who traveled through Tibet fighting the sprits of the mountains and valleys; the Dalai Lamas, eternally reborn incarnations of the great Bodhisattva of compassion; and the ferocious, sword-wielding, multilimbed gods that act as guardians to the land and its religions. These major themes, and many more, are interpreted visually through iconography, pattern, motif, and symbolism, as well as in terms of their underlying historical and spiritual significance.
A superb addition to any library of art and imagination. "Tibet" sets new standards in capturing the achievements of a great civilization through the marriage of word and image.
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