Dalai Lama's Secret Temple : Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet HC Ian Baker 2000

Description: The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple : Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet by Ian A. Baker and Thomas Laird (2000, Hardcover) ~ in Like New condition, with tight binding, clean pages and pristine dustcover, please see the pictures. Large Format Hardcover. Includes 150 color photographs from Tibet's Lukhang temple, a private retreat for the Dalai Lama established in the late seventeenth century, that contains what was, until the Chinese invaded, a secret meditation chamber covered with a set of extraordinary murals. These murals present a host of figures engaged in the basic cycles of life or practicing Tantric meditation techniques in pursuit of inner transformation. Instead of rejecting desire as other Buddhist practices do, Tantra harnesses this intrinsically human drive and turns it into "boundless compassion." So powerful and potentially dangerous is this path to spiritual awakening, only the most enlightened of Tibetan Buddhist monks are initiated into the tradition. Tibet expert Baker's decoding of the murals' images and history of the Tantric tradition are cogent and deeply moving. In his introduction, the Dalai Lama, who was unable to visit Lukhang before being forced into exile, writes that many believe that the very sight of these paintings opens the viewer's mind to spiritual truths.

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