The traditional arts and crafts of India reflect the exuberant spirit of the land and its people. Focusing on 4 distinct and exquisite types of traditional native folkcraft, the authors have brought forth a wealth of creative suggestions and graphic possibilities with these 99 full and partial color illustrations of authentic Indian motifs. Introduction. Map. 99 illustrations.
A rich treasury of India's religious iconography, this collection was assembled by one of the 19th-century's leading scholars. Its 300 skillfully drawn images of Krishna, Vishnu, Siva, and other major deities feature illuminating captions.Reprint of The Hindu Pantheon, J. Johnson, London, 1810 edition.
Edouard Levé delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide, just a few days before he took his own life.Suicide cannot be read as simply another novelâit is, in a sense, the authorâs own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friendâperhaps real, perhaps fictionalâmore than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, who chose to reject his life, and all the people who loved him, in favor of oblivion. Gradually, through Levéâs casually obsessive, pointillist, beautiful ruminations, we come to know a stoic, sensible, thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to Levé himself. But Suicide is more than just a compendium of memories of an old friend; it is a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and effects of the act of suicide, and a unique and melancholy farewell to life.
A new archive featuring select stories from FLASH COMICS #1-22, introducing Hawkman! Gardner Fox's stories took the reincarnated Egyptian prince and pitted him against common criminals and uncommon masked felons. Plus, an introduction by Sheldon Moldoff.
Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs plus Indians' own songs and stories. "A smashingly handsome book!" â Kliatt Paperback Guide.
The enchanted relm of Argonia. Bronwyn, Princess of Argonis, her hearthwitch cousin Carole, Jack a hnadome gyspy, set of in a quest in Bronwyn's Bane to end the war between Ablemarle and Argonia. In the Christening Quest, they must journey to the distant land of Gorequartz in search of Browyn's infant daughter, kidnapped by a band of evil Wizards. Two magical and mischievous fantasies that will capture your heart.
Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary disciples to control his posthumous reputation, a struggle that was continued by later generations of critics and biographers. Monopolizing the Master gives a blow-by-blow account of this conflict, which aroused intense feelings of jealousy, suspicion, and proprietorship among those who claimed to be the just custodians of James's literary legacy. With an unprecedented amount of new evidence now available, Michael Anesko reveals the remarkable social, political, and sexual intrigue that inspired—and influenced—the deliberate construction of the Legend of the Master.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make available in various ways the teachings it contains.
"Meditation is not on the level of the object but on that of the subject - you are the business of your meditation.
"Bodhicitta is very practical, I tell you. It's like medicine. The self-cherishing thought is like a nail or a sword in your heart; it always feels uncomfortable. With bodhicitta, from the moment you begin to open, you feel incredibly peaceful and you get tremendous pleasure and inexhaustible energy. Forget about enlightenment - as soon as you begin to open yourself to others, you gain tremendous pleasure and satisfaction. Working for others is very interesting; it's an infinite activity. Your life becomes continuously rich and interesting.
"Historically, Shakyamuni Buddha taught the four noble truths. To whose culture do the four noble truths belong? The essence of religion has nothing to do with any one particular country's culture. Compassion, love, reality - to whose culture do they belong? The people of any country, any nation, can implement the three principal aspects of the path, the four noble truths or the eightfold path. There's no contradiction at all."
750 items, 14th through 19th century: alphabets, scripts, cartouches, title pages, ornamentation.
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