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Date: 31st May 2011
Dream creations
A couple of months ago Michael Willis came and gave a series of lectures at Yale. Phyllis Granoff and her husband Koichi Shinohara were at one, and they mentioned that many Tibetan paintings are made after a lama has a dream in which he envisions a deity in a certain appearance, often unprecedented. (This is in contrast to the tempting interpretation that thangkas are used to inspire visualizations of deities.) I understand the idea that dream-visions of deities, mandalas, etc. would be rendered in painting, but how interesting that they might also lead to the making of a new hat!
From Blog: Where are the Images - White Hats?
Dream creations
A couple of months ago Michael Willis came and gave a series of lectures at Yale. Phyllis Granoff and her husband Koichi Shinohara were at one, and they mentioned that many Tibetan paintings are made after a lama has a dream in which he envisions a deity in a certain appearance, often unprecedented. (This is in contrast to the tempting interpretation that thangkas are used to inspire visualizations of deities.) I understand the idea that dream-visions of deities, mandalas, etc. would be rendered in painting, but how interesting that they might also lead to the making of a new hat!
From Blog: Where are the Images - White Hats?
Date: 9th December 2010
Art
Great Job.
From Blog: Beijing: Research Center for Tibetan Buddhist Heritage
Art
Great Job.
From Blog: Beijing: Research Center for Tibetan Buddhist Heritage
steve
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the park is great
spent thr afternoon lazily= in the park...wonderful.. www.travelchengdu.blogspot.com
From Blog: Saturday at the Tea House