Research Catalog

Title

Visual dharma : the Buddhist art of Tibet / Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. --

Author

Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939-1987

Publication

Berkeley [Calif.] : Shambhala ; [New York] : distributed by Random House, 1975.

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Additional Authors

• MIT Office of Exhibitions
• Nalanda Foundation
• Hayden Gallery

Description

142 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Visual Dharma presents the tantric iconography of Tibetan Buddhism. People have heard of the existence of tantra and have even encountered its visual expressions, but tantra has remained only vaguely understood. By giving the straight-forward facts of the development and inspiration of Tibetan art, its methods and its social context, Visual Dharma dissipates the fog surrounding the tantric tradtion and leads to a perception of its genuine mystery. The symbolism of tantra is drawn from the wisdom of the awakened state of mind. The figures of its iconography are not deities in the ordinary sense, but aspects of transmuted ego.

Subject

• Buddhist art > Tibet Autonomous Region > Exhibitions
• Art, Tibetan > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "An exhibition organized by the MIT Office of Exhibitions and the Nalanda Foundation [and held at the] Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 4-May 7, 1975."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letter from the Dalai Lama -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Visual Dharma: the Buddhist art of Tibet Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche -- Catalogue of the exhibition with plates -- Glossary -- Photographic credits.

ISBN

087773075X :

LCCN

^^^75003917^//r80

OCLC

• 1551235
• SCSB-10019855

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library