Twin Mandalas of Vairocana in Japanese Iconography
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Sata-Pitaka Series
Book: 635Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788177421163
Length
293p., 109Plates; Index; 29cm.
Subjects
A fundamental work for the philosophic and artistic understanding of the theory and graphic representation of the mandalas in general and especially in the Shingon tradition of Japan. Details the philosophy, patriarchs and sacred canon of Mantrayana, its ulterior development into two branches in Japan, the nature and different kinds of mandalas, as well as their classification and essential principles. The twin mandalas of Vairocana based on the ...