The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide
Language: English
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, New York & Antwerp, 2013
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Pictorial covers are mostly clean, with white text. Corners are sharp. Spine has white text and is bright with firm ends. Binding is tight. End papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear. Staple bound Index sits inside back cover. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior exhibits marginal toning. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. DJ looks great behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper. Close examination of DJ reveals light edgewear including possible bumps, rubbing, and/or tiny closed tears. See photos.** PS2026.0917** 176 pages. 8 1/8 x 11 1/4 inches** Quarto. Pictorial boards with white title, behind matching Dust Jacket, now under archival Mylar. Binding is tight, interior is crisp and unmarked, with just a little marginal toning to the pages. Fifty-four color plates depict the leaves of the Vairocana Album. Essays precede the plates. With an Index laid inside the back cover. Condition is truly Very Good Plus+.** Published in conjunction with an exhibition co-organised by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, and MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium, and presented at the Rubin Museum of Art from October 17, 2014 to April 13, 2015. The exhibition was curated by Elena Pakhoutova and Karl Debreczeny.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010573"**.…
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- Title
- The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide
- Author
- Jan Van Alphen (ed.)
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Company, New York & Antwerp
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 908586643X
- ISBN 13
- 9789085866435
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 80 ounces
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Exhibition Catalogs & Monographs, First, Signed, Collectible, Limited Editions, Yoga, Buddhist & Eastern Traditions
This book is the culmination of a long story that began with the acquisition of fifty-four paintings from an elderly priest, who had served in a Belgian mission in Inner Mongolia in the 1920s, by the Ethnographic Museum of Antwerp in 1977.
The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide focuses on this extremely rare group of richly-detailed album leaves which illustrate the visualization practice of Sarvavid Vairocana, the All-Knowing Buddha. This beautifully illustrated step-by-step visual guide provides a unique glimpse into Tibetan Buddhist meditation and ritual, normally instruction restricted to oral transmission by a teacher to his initiated disciple. These practices are usually not meant to be depicted and this is one of the only albums known to exist in which the meditative visualization process is spelled out visually. While the ritual narrative of these unusual paintings is Tibetan Buddhist in content they are expressed in a vivid Chinese aesthetic, a unique product of cultural translation through its Mongolian patrons. The album exemplifies rich patterns of cross-cultural exchange that characterized the Qing Empire.
Three essays by the Rubin Museum curators explore different aspects of Vairocana and contextualize the album, illustrated with approximately twenty-five images, followed by the leaves themselves which are featured in fifty-four full-page plates with accompanying commentary on their ritual and artistic content.
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