Tibetan Art

The rich artistic heritage of Tibet reveals the depths of the meditations of great Masters, translated into the majestic abundance of iconic symbols that take the form of three-dimensional images or two-dimensional Thangkas. Tibetan Art is a comprehensive introduction to the complex iconography of Thangkas providing a glimpse of the mind ground of this art and the land where it flourished. It takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery: Buddhist deities do not exist outside us but represent aspects of innate human potential-the capacity for compassion, wisdom, mental discipline, and other spiritual conditions and achievements. With no distinct, independent existence or objective reality, these deities are but symbols of abstract qualities, that are emanations of one’s mind, and of the universal mind that venerates perfection.