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Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is an encyclopedia of Buddhist icons based on the Rinjung Gyatsa, the Narthang Gyatsa, and the Ratnavali. Full-color illustrations of over five hundred Tibetan Buddhist deities are reproduced here from a set of hand-painted woodblock-prints created in the early nineteenth century. This reare collection, which is the only known painted version of the Icons Worthwile to See, is presented along with an extensive explanation of the meditative visualizations, mantras, and symbolism around each figure. Deities of Tibetan Buddhism is an indispensable reference and identification aid for art historians, curators, scholars, students and admirers of Tibetan Buddhism.

The extensive set of reference material includes English, Tibetan, Sanskrit and Mongolian indexes and a morphological index, which will be found of great value in identifying deity images. The English index is particularly comprehensive, including not only names but entries of iconographic features, explanations of technical terms, and analytical articles; glossaries document discrepancies in the depictions, and cross-reference other tantric collections where the same deities are described; pictorial index, featuring drawings and text by Robert Beer.

The Zürich Paintings of the Icons Worthwhile to See

Edited by Martin Willson and Martin Brauen
Translated by Martin Willson
Introduced by Martin Brauen
Drawings by Robert Beer
Photos by Peter Nebel
11.75" x 10" (30cm x 25,5 cm), 624 pages, 87 color plates covercloth with gold foil lettering, packed in individual box.
Wisdom Publications, Somerville, and Völkerkundemuseum Zürich 2000
ISBN 0-86171-098-3; sFr. 300.– (+ shipping)

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