What sources of power might we find in the places that surround us? The natural environment wields its own power and can challenge us in extreme ways, as with the earthquake that devastated Nepal in 2015 [...]
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Lotus mandalas count among the most fascinating objects of Esoteric Buddhist art. These three-dimensional representations of deity palaces typically feature [...]
Mandalas play an important part in Buddhist practices, symbolizing the cosmos as the divine palace of a deity who commands his or her retinue [...]
This exquisite thangka is the thirteenth painting in a set depicting the mandalas of the Vajravali cycle, a compendium of Esoteric teachings compiled by the eleventh-century Indian master Abhayakaragupta [...]
The eighth-century master Namkhai Nyingpo, one of the twenty-five disciples of a founding figure of Tibetan Buddhism, Padmasambhava, is shown in this painting dressed in monastic robes and holding an [...]
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Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley has long been a center of art making, and thus a number of objects from there that give insight into the artistic process have been preserved. Among these are [...]