The Art of Awakening

A User’s Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Art and Practice

By Konchog Lhadrepa
By Charlotte Davis

$29.95
SKU
9781611803877
Extras
An excerpt from a documentary on Thangka Painting from Shechen Monastery where The Art of Awakening came from.
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Snow Lion
03/13/2017
Pages: 496
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781611803877
Details
The sacred arts play an essential, intrinsic role in Tibetan Buddhist practice. Here, one of the great practitioners and master artists of our time presents a guide to the Tibetan Buddhist path, from preliminary practices through enlightenment, from the artist's perspective. With profound wisdom, he shows how visual representations of the sacred in paintings, sculptures, mandalas, and stupas can be an essential support to practice throughout the path. This work, based on the author's landmark Tibetan text, The Path to Liberation, includes basic Buddhist teachings and practices, clearly pointing out the relevance of these for both the sacred artist and the practitioner, along with an overview of the history and iconography of Buddhist art.
Extras
An excerpt from a documentary on Thangka Painting from Shechen Monastery where The Art of Awakening came from.