Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet

148 Pages·1975·19.448 MB·English

by  Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Bruce K. McDonald

DHARMA
VISUAL
THE BUDDHIST ART OF
TIBET
ChogyamTrungpa, Rinpoche
The symbol on the cover is the seed syllables of
the Kalacakra heruka in monogram form. It pre-
sents the essence ofthe teaching ofthe Kalacakra
tantra. The syllables contained in it are: ha ksa ma
la va ra yam, which can be divided into ten to
constitute what is known as the "ten syllables of
power." They represent the energy which tran-
scends the relative concepts of time and space.
The monogram contains the symbolism of the
five elements—earth, air, fire, water, space-
transmuted by the principle of sunyata or empti-
ness. It also represents the 84,000 buddha-
dharmas or teachings of enlightenment.
Frontispiece
Kurukulla (Vajrayogini as Magnetizer), 40
/&?£
\

VISUAL DHARMA: THE BUDDHIST ART OFTIBET

DHARMA
VISUAL
THE BUDDHIST ART OF
TIBET
Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
1975
Shambhala
Berkeley & London
Shambhala Publications Inc.
2045 Francisco Street
Berkeley, California 94709
and
68 Carter Lane
London EC4V5EL
® 1975 Chogyam Trungpa. All rights reserved.
ISBN0-87773-075-X
LCC 75-3917
Distributed in the United States by Random
House and in Canada by Random House of
Canada Ltd.
Distributed in Great Britain and the Common-
wealth by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London
and Henley-on-Thames.
Published in association with the Office of Exhi-
bitions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Nalanda Foundation.
Printed in the United States of America.
CONTENTS
Letter from The Dalai Lama ix
Foreword Bruce K. MacDonald xi
Acknowledgments
xii
Introduction xiii
Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 15
Catalogue of the Exhibition with plates 27
Glossary 137
Photographic credits 142
An exhibition organized by the MIT Office of Exhibitions
and the Nalanda Foundation. Hayden Gallery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 4-May 7, 1975
Sponsored by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts
This exhibition has been generously assisted
byTheJDR3rdFund.