Product Description: Secrets of the Sacred illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animated by the divine. The earliest canonical scriptures indicate that images of the Buddha were created before the concept of transcendental identity was developed...read more

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Product Description: The old "Masters of Meditation," Zenji, liked to talk to their followers and disciples in similes and metaphors. They confronted and provoked them with seemingly obvious images drawn from daily life and with enigmatic teachings. In the "ink traces," bokuseki, of their brush and in the portraits, chinzo, the characters and substance of the masters are revealed most poignantly, and both served the Zen adherents to absorb word and spirit of their religious paragons, enabling them to transmit their teachings faithfully...read more

Product Description: Soft cover book titled CHINESE CLOISONNE: The Pierre Uldry Collection by Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz. Published by The Asia Society Galleries in 1989. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white photographs. See my photographs (5) of this book on main listing page...read more