The Dalai Lama's secret temple : Tantric wall paintings from Tibet : with 188 illustrations, 150 in color

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The Dalai Lama's secret temple : Tantric wall paintings from Tibet : with 188 illustrations, 150 in color

text by Ian A. Baker ; photographs by Thomas Laird ; introduction by Tenzin Gyayso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet

Thames & Hudson, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-212)

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A treasury of Tibetan Buddhist art exists in the form of Tantric wall paintings located in the private chapel of an island temple built by the Sixth Dalai Lama. The Lukhang murals were designed to guide the Dalai Lamas in a deeply secret form of mystical contemplation called Dzogchen.

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