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Book Synopsis Evolution of the Garbhadhātu Maṇḍala by : Ulrich Hans Richard Mammitzsch
Download or read book Evolution of the Garbhadhātu Maṇḍala written by Ulrich Hans Richard Mammitzsch and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in English to detail the splendid images of the imago mundi of Shingon/Mantrayana in all its profundity.This profundity is difficult to capture in words.The teachings are so profound that they are best expressed in painting.It is a systematic study of the evolution of the Garbhadhatu mandala in China and Japan.
Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of the Mandala by : Kimiaki Tanaka
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Mandala written by Kimiaki Tanaka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone’s heard of mandalas; now we have a uniquely rich history and explanation of their history and meaning. This book is a history of the genesis and development of the mandala from the fifth and sixth centuries, when the mandala first appeared in India, to the eleventh century, when the Kalacakratantra appeared just before the disappearance of Buddhism in India. The 600 years of Indian esoteric Buddhism that concluded the 1,700-year history of Indian Buddhism could be said to have been the history of the development of the mandala. (The Kalacakratantra integrated earlier mandala theories into a single system and established a monumental system unprecedented in the history of esoteric Buddhism. It was thus the culmination of the development of Indian Buddhism over a period of 1,700 years.) The analysis is at the micro level and includes numerous illustrations and charts. Particular attention is paid to proper names, mudras, and mantras that have been overlooked by scholars in philosophy and doctrine, and the author tackles issues that cannot be explained solely from a historical viewpoint, such as geometric patterns, the arrangement of deities, the colors, and their meaning in Buddhist doctrine.
Book Synopsis Japanese Mandalas by : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Download or read book Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.
Download or read book Mandala Cosmogony written by Dan Martin and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Autumn of the Middle Ages by : Johan Huizinga
Download or read book The Autumn of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." —Washington Post Book World The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history—the Renaissance—but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being "old-fashioned" and "too literary" when The Waning of the Middle Ages was first published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition—softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced. This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected. "The advantages of the new translation are so many. . . . It is one of the greatest, as well as one of the most enthralling, historical classics of the twentieth century, and everyone will surely want to read it in the form that was obviously intended by the author." —Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books "A once pathbreaking piece of historical interpretation. . . . This new translation will no doubt bring Huizinga and his pioneering work back into the discussion of historical interpretation." —Rosamond McKitterick, New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Maṇḍala and Landscape by : Alexander W. Macdonald
Download or read book Maṇḍala and Landscape written by Alexander W. Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1996-12-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Highlights, Perhaps For The First Time, The Techniques Whereby Mandala-Schemes Are Projected In Thought, Belief And Action, On To Widely Differing Natural Landscapes. The Emphasis Is On Geographical Contexts And Socio-Cultural Traditions.
Book Synopsis Mandalas and the Evolution of the Self by : Laura Marentes
Download or read book Mandalas and the Evolution of the Self written by Laura Marentes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politics and Transcendent Wisdom by : Charles D. Orzech
Download or read book Politics and Transcendent Wisdom written by Charles D. Orzech and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Transcendent Wisdom presents a systematic theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between politics and religion in a variety of contexts. This book examines the formation of &"national protection&" Buddhism in China and translates the key text of this important movement. Showing that Buddhist notions of sovereignty were meant and were taken as more than mere metaphor, Orzech examines the profound link between Buddhist notions of transcendence and the deployment of political authority in East Asia. To this integration of philosophical tradition and political history is brought a new understanding of Buddhist cosmology. The contexts of Buddhism as state religion in fifth- and eighth-century China are examined in detail, through extended consideration of the Transcendent Wisdom Scripture for Humane Kings Who Wish to Protect Their States, the text that was the charter for Buddhist state cults in China, Korea, and Japan into the twentieth century. The text first appeared during the fifth century as Buddhists were struggling to understand how their &"foreign&" religion and the &"foreign&" rulers of north China might be adapted to Chinese religious and political culture. The Scripture for Humane Kings and the rites enjoined by it were one answer to these questions. Three centuries later, in the context of a fully sinified Buddhism, the T'ang dynasty Tantric master Pu-k'ung produced a new version of the text with new rites that served as the centerpiece of his vision of a Chinese Buddhist state modeled on esoteric lines. The final section of this volume presents for the first time a full, annotated translation of this important East Asian Buddhist text.
Book Synopsis The Theory and Practice of the Mandala by : Giuseppe Tucci
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of the Mandala written by Giuseppe Tucci and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing, thought-provoking study by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject examines the basic doctrine behind the theory and practice of the mandala in India and Tibet, by both Hindus and Buddhists. Topics include the doctrinal basis of the mandala, its use as a means of reintegration, its symbolism, and other aspects of its expression of the infinite possibilities of the subconscious.
Book Synopsis Buddhist Architecture by : Huu Phuoc Le
Download or read book Buddhist Architecture written by Huu Phuoc Le and published by Grafikol. This book was released on 2010 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principal types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third century BCE-twelfth century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns alongwith the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments. It also discusses the historical antecedents in the Indus Civilization and the religious and philosophical foundations of the three schools of Buddhism and its founder, Buddha. Previously obscure topics such as Aniconic and Vajrayana (Tantric) architecture and the four holiest sites of Buddhism will also be covered in this comprehensive volume. The author further investigates the influences of Buddhist architecture upon Islamic, Christian, and Hindu architecture that have been overlooked by past scholars."
Download or read book Mandala written by Denise Patry Leidy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism by : Adrian Snodgrass
Download or read book The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present book surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the Twin mandalas.
Book Synopsis The Sand Mandala of Vajrabhairava by : Daniel Cozort
Download or read book The Sand Mandala of Vajrabhairava written by Daniel Cozort and published by Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the symbolism of one of Buddhism's most colorful mandalas.
Download or read book The Mandala written by Martin Brauen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A symbolic representation of the elements in the universe, the mandala is a myterious and often misunderstood sacred image and ritual tool in Tantric Buddhism. With a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, THE MANDALA presents a thorough study, with sensational color photographs, of the different aspects of this traditional form of sacred art. Includes photos of the well-known Kalachakra initiation ceremony performed by the Dalai Lama. 49 color & 62 b&w photos.
Book Synopsis The Theory and Practice of the Mandala by : Giuseppe Tucci
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of the Mandala written by Giuseppe Tucci and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to the Mandala by : Chikyō Yamamoto
Download or read book Introduction to the Mandala written by Chikyō Yamamoto and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mandala Evolution 1 by : Becky L. Torres
Download or read book Mandala Evolution 1 written by Becky L. Torres and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandala Evolution 1. Mandalas can be beautiful and unique to color. Sometimes you just want to loose yourself in the details and repetitive nature of a mandala. But mandalas are inherently round. what if I cut, copy, rotate and rearrange pieces of a mandala? The end result is a unique and different image. That is the idea behind my series Mandala Evolution. 40 SINGLE SIDED PAGES. See a preview of all images at www.beckytorresdesigns.com
