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9780764961298 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2012), cover price $13.99
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9781593249083 | Wal edition (Brush Dance, September 15, 2011), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: From the white snowy days of winter to warm summer nights, this calendar is filled with photographs celebrating the beauty and delight of each season.
Product Description: Japanese scrolls and screen paintings reveal a variety of influences, including Chinese painting and calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, and Japanese literature, and their subjects range from portraits to scenes from mythology, scripture, everyday life, and nature...read more
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9780764958564 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Japanese scrolls and screen paintings reveal a variety of influences, including Chinese painting and calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, and Japanese literature, and their subjects range from portraits to scenes from mythology, scripture, everyday life, and nature.
Product Description: In the waning days of the Qing dynasty (1644â1911), China's first formal art schools were founded in an atmosphere of spirited debate about tradition, reform, and what it meant to be an artist in that culture. The painter Chao Shao-an (1905â1998), a leader in the modernist movement, strove, like his masters, both âto learn from nature [and to] be inspired by [an] inner sensibility...read more
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9780764957154 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: In the waning days of the Qing dynasty (1644â1911), China's first formal art schools were founded in an atmosphere of spirited debate about tradition, reform, and what it meant to be an artist in that culture.
Product Description: Some 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment while meditating beneath a fig tree in Bodhgaya, India, and became the Buddha, or âawakened one.â The Buddhaâs teachings about the path to attaining wisdom and compassion spread within his homeland and then to many other Asian countries...read more
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9780764957178 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2011), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Some 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment while meditating beneath a fig tree in Bodhgaya, India, and became the Buddha, or âawakened one.
Product Description: Some 2,500 years old, Buddhism is based on the teachings of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, who, after achieving enlightenment, began teaching others that they could transcend suffering through self-realization. The Buddha's teachings spread from his native India throughout Asia, each culture adding its unique imprint...read more
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9780764952517 | Wal deluxe edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2010), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Some 2,500 years old, Buddhism is based on the teachings of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, who, after achieving enlightenment, began teaching others that they could transcend suffering through self-realization.
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9780764947414 | Min wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2009), cover price $7.99
Product Description: Some 2,500 years old, Buddhism is based on the teachings of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, who, after achieving enlightenment, began teaching others that they could transcend suffering through self-realization. The Buddha's teachings spread from his native India throughout Asia, each culture adding its unique imprint...read more
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9780764947735 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Some 2,500 years old, Buddhism is based on the teachings of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, who, after achieving enlightenment, began teaching others that they could transcend suffering through self-realization.
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9780764947407 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2009), cover price $13.99
Product Description: Chao Shao-an (Chinese, 1905-1998) was a leader in his country s modernist art movement, striving like his teachers 'to learn from nature but be inspired by inner sensibility.' In his mid-twenties Chao established the Lingnan Art Studio to carry on this vital, fresh approach, which he continued to utilize over the course of his long career...read more
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9780764947421 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2009), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Chao Shao-an (Chinese, 1905-1998) was a leader in his country s modernist art movement, striving like his teachers 'to learn from nature but be inspired by inner sensibility.
Product Description: This calendar features Tibetan and Chinese thangkas, devotional paintings used as teaching tools. Originally carried by nomadic storytellers to illustrate their tales, thangkas evolved into religious artifacts fabricated in adherence to faithfully observed rituals and iconography...read more
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9780764943232 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, June 1, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This calendar features Tibetan and Chinese thangkas, devotional paintings used as teaching tools.
Product Description: Written around the beginning of the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is Japan s most famous novel. It s no surprise, then, that illustrations of the story should turn up on folding screens beautiful and practical manifestations of the Japanese aesthetic found inside traditional Japanese homes...read more
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9780764943591, titled "The Tale Of Genji 2009" | Min wal edition (Pomegranate, June 1, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Written around the beginning of the eleventh century, The Tale of Genji is Japan s most famous novel.
Product Description: A leader in the modernization of traditional Chinese painting, Chao Shao-an (1905 1998) began his art studies at sixteen. Like his masters, Chao strove, in his words, to learn from Nature but be inspired by inner sensibility. His free, fluid brushwork, use of vibrant color, and inventive compositions are evident in the superb landscape, flower, bird, and insect paintings presented here...read more
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9780764943690 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, June 1, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A leader in the modernization of traditional Chinese painting, Chao Shao-an (1905 1998) began his art studies at sixteen.
Product Description: Some of Japan s most captivating art has taken the form of scrolls and folding screens. Japanese scrolls made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and watercolors bear the influence of Chinese painting and calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, and native literature...read more
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9780764943812 | Wal edition (Pomegranate, June 1, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Some of Japan s most captivating art has taken the form of scrolls and folding screens.
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9780764926471 | Egmt spi edition (Pomegranate, July 1, 2004), cover price $14.99
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9780811827850 | Ncr pck cr edition (Chronicle Books Llc, February 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: All Deluxe Notecards have the following specifications: Slipcase with Velcro closure, 5-1/4 x 6-3/8 in.
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9780300081329 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $110.00
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9780894682452 | Natl Gallery of Art, September 1, 1999, cover price $22.01
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9780500237052 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1995, cover price $60.00
9789997764102 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1995, cover price N/A
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9780824816629 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $36.00
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