The Book of Buddhas: Ritual Symbolism Used on Buddhist Statuary and Ritual Objects

by Eva Rudy Jansen

Book Overview

Explores the symbolism of the ritual objects that are used on statues and paintings and explains the ritual meaning of the objects associated with Buddhism. Although this is not an exhaustive study,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9074597025
• ISBN13: 9789074597029
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

a brief book that can open many worlds

This introductory book strikes a good balance of being informative and being not overly burdensome a read. Though it may allow for easy reading in some ways, the subjects feature powerful gateways into the development of intercultural understanding and cosmic minds. People of diverse religions and cultural backgrounds could benefit from repeated visits to the book, especially spread over time and used in conjunction with exploration through meditation, applied imagination, and other means. As an additional note, if a reader finds what appear to be internal contradictions between different statements in the book or external contradictions between the book and other Buddhist sources, it could be fruitful to consider questions over these as written or unwritten koans.

my first book of buddhas

for being new to asian carvings of buddhas it has brought together for me in one book a great resource of learning symbols gestures poses

very informative

Although I am a practising Thevardian Buddhist , I find this book on Tibetan Iconography and symbolism very interesting It have decipher the ancient secrets of the Tibetan and made it easy to comprehend to every lay Buddhist I strongly recomend this book to any inspiring Tibetan Buddhist learner