2021, ISBN: 69a5fd7e07fe164585306ff5723f68cc

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 275pp.., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, 3, Milano: Skira, 2011. Texts by Partha Mitter, Deepali Dewan, Tushara Bindu Gude, D… Mehr…

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 275pp.., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, 3, Milano: Skira, 2011. Texts by Partha Mitter, Deepali Dewan, Tushara Bindu Gude, Donald Kuspit, Sundaram Tagore. English Text. Milano, 2011; clothbound, pp. 150, 90 col. ill., cm 24x30. The first monograph of the Indian artist Sohan Qadri, a modern Tantric painter. Born in 1932 in Punjab, India, Qadri began his quest for his true self through Tantric yoga and spent long periods of time silently meditating in remote temples in the Himalayas and Tibet. His isolation propelled his urge to paint. He received his MFA in 1960 from the Government College of Art in Simla, India, but soon discovered that academic trappings were not for him. Shortly after his first exhibition in 1965, he left India for the West. In Qadri's work, there is a tranquil coexistence of binary opposites - male and female, known and unknown, physical and spiritual. Although he clearly has Western influences, such as Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, his work is uniquely Eastern. His paintings are monochrome surfaces with structural effects that, in their repetition, convey the rhythmic expressions of colour energies. The vibrations created by these energies are endless and break the boundaries between the inner space of the image and the external space of the viewer. Heinrich Böll, the 1972 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, said that Qadri, "with his painting liberates the word meditation from its fashionable taste and brings it back to its proper origin uninfluenced by Western propaganda, misunderstandings and corruptions., Skira, 2011, 0, This volume is a translation of the first twelve chapters of The Glorious Esoteric Community Great King of Tantras (Sri Guhyasamaja Maha-tantra-raja), along with the commentary called The Illuminating Lamp (Pradipoddyotana-nama-tika), a commentary in Sanskrit on this tantra by the seventh-century Buddhist intellectual and tantric scholar-adept Chandrakirti. Regarded by Indo-Tibetan tradition as the esoteric scripture wherein the Buddha revealed in greatest detail the actual psycho-physical process of his enlightenment, The Esoteric Community Tantra is a preeminent text of the class of scriptures known to Indian Buddhist scholar-adepts as great yoga tantra, and later to their Tibetan successors as unexcelled yoga tantra. The Illuminating Lamp presents a system of interpretive guidelines according to which the cryptic meanings of all tantras might be extracted in order to engage the ritual and yogic practices taught therein. Applying its interpretive strategies to the text of The Esoteric Community Tantra, The Illuminating Lamp articulates a synthetic, "vajra vehicle" (vajrayana) discourse that locates tantric practices and ideals squarely within the cosmological and institutional frameworks of exoteric Mahayana Buddhism., Wisdom Publications, 2021, 6, New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1966 Tantric symbols and patterns, the storehouse of which is yet little known, light up form and color. Lavishly illustrated. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 152 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, black eps, color frontis; all edges sunned, mildly cocked. Cover: red cloth, gilt star symbol front, gilt titles spine; light shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, area of fading to front board at the top near spine. DJ: unclipped, glossy white, green/pink/black front, black titles front/spine; substantial edge/shelfwear w/ large chips with loss of text, rubbing, large jagged tears, a real pig. Large, heavy., Ravi Kumar, 1966, 2.5<

1966, ISBN: 69a5fd7e07fe164585306ff5723f68cc

New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1966 Tantric symbols and patterns, the storehouse of which is yet little known, light up form and color. Lavishly illustrated. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) … Mehr…

New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1966 Tantric symbols and patterns, the storehouse of which is yet little known, light up form and color. Lavishly illustrated. From the collection of Sanje (Frank) Elliott, Buddhist mentor, artist, and friend to many. Condition notes: 152 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, black eps, color frontis; all edges sunned, mildly cocked. Cover: red cloth, gilt star symbol front, gilt titles spine; light shelfwear, extrems a bit worn, area of fading to front board at the top near spine. DJ: unclipped, glossy white, green/pink/black front, black titles front/spine; substantial edge/shelfwear w/ large chips with loss of text, rubbing, large jagged tears, a real pig. Large, heavy., Ravi Kumar, 1966, 2.5<

1971, ISBN: 69a5fd7e07fe164585306ff5723f68cc

Basel / Paris / New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A very good copy.., Ravi Kumar, 1971, 3