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he role of nuns in the Buddhist community is more prominent than ever and now is the time to bring to fruition the Buddha’s vision of total equality and full ordination for men and women alike.This brilliant collection of resounding voices represents the movement to reinstate full ordination of women in all Buddhist traditions—amid great controversy. Covering the breadth of Buddhist traditions, Dignity and Discipline is a seminal volume that conveys the history and the vision for the future of the role of women as ambassadors and curators of the ordained Buddhist community.

352 pages | 978-086171-588-6 | $18.95 December 2009

Thea Mohr is author and director of numerous documentaries dealing with religious subjects, primarily Buddhism. Since 1994 she has been a lecturer for religious studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Bhikshuni Jampa Tsedroen (Carola Roloff ) is an ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun and a lecturer and research fellow at Hamburg University specializing in nuns’ ordination and women in Buddhism.

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ometimes history is cruel: A civilization starts to fall apart and a stable social order starts to unravel; upheaval and uncertainty abound.Tyrants ride high, old notions of justice vanish, and people may feel they have nowhere to turn for relief. In some ways, this is our world, now. But now is not the first time such challenges have been met and faced boldly. Indeed, this is what happened to the Chinese world in the thirteenth century when the Mongol conquerors mangled China and left the Chinese social order in tatters. This book, from one of the pioneering and preeminent translators of Zen for the West, 240 pages | 978-086171-592-3 | $16.95 presents a selection of Zen lessons from four January 2010 teachers in four successive generations whose public lives spanned the turbulent period in Chinese history from the last generation of the Song dynasty (overthrown by the Mongols in 1279) to the first generation of the Ming dynasty (which drove out the Mongols, and proclaimed its own reign in 1368). These four Zen masters were all eminent public teachers, and their teaching words reflect the state of the art of Zen teaching in their time. And they are, even now, all vividly relevant.

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J.C. Cleary holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator, along with his brother Thomas Cleary, of The Blue Cliff Record as well numerous other translations of texts from Zen’s Chinese history. He lives outside Boston.

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Winter 2010 Titles A timely and universally important book from the bestselling and world-renowned authors of How to Be Happy and How to Meditate.

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he inevitability of sickness, old age, and death is a subject that makes a lot of people uneasy. And yet, as Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Kathleen McDonald tell us in this powerful and moving little book, our anxiety around these things can be a “wholesome fear”—a fear that can have a positive quality that ultimately enriches and nourishes our lives. It does this by leaving us no choice but to face difficult truths and live more authentically because of them. Truly, we can use our anxiety around all aspects of impermanence and death as a spur to really live what’s most important; we can transform anxious energy into high-octane fuel to help us take up the practices right now that will lead to peace, compassion, and joy. Doing so will help us to live well and, when the time comes as it inevitably will, to die well too. It’s never too early to start making this most important of efforts—and, fortunately, it is never too late.

168 pages | 978-086171-630-2 | $14.95 January 2010

A profoundly practical book, Wholesome Fear also includes instruction in beginning meditation and ten powerful guided meditations that have the power to transform your fear—and your life.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the spiritual director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a worldwide network of Buddhist centers, monasteries, and affiliated projects, including Wisdom Publications. His books include How to Be Happy, Transforming Problems into Happiness, and Ultimate Healing. He lives in Aptos, California. Kathleen McDonald was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1974. She is a respected and inspiring teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. She is the author of Wisdom’s bestselling How to Meditate.

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“FORM IS EMPTINESS; EMPTINESS IS FORM.” lmost every Buddhist practitioner or dabbler into Zen has been intrigued, at one time or another, by this famous line from the Heart Sutra. This powerful and profound ancient scripture, of crucial importance to all of Mahayana Buddhism, offers us insight into the nature of ultimate reality perceived through intuitive wisdom. The spaciousness of this approach allows the heart to beat in its naturalness, beyond disputations and ideological arguments—and in this important offering from Mu Soeng, we can start to see how intellect and intuition can begin to meet. In offering a thorough exploration of this important piece of the world’s great religious literature, The Heart of the Universe establishes a broad context to encounter the Heart Sutra on many levels—historical, spiritual, linguistic, and empirical—each serving to interdependently illuminate the other. 152 pages | 978-086171-574-9 | $15.95 Mu Soeng’s previous two books have been February 2010 much-praised explorations of two other seminal Buddhist texts: The Diamond Sutra, and the third Zen Ancestor’s famously inspiring poem, Trust in Mind.

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Mu Soeng, a former Zen monk and teacher, is the co-director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He lives in Barre, Massachusetts.

Praise for previous works from Mu Soeng. “Fresh and inspiring.”—Inquiring Mind “A pleasure to read! Providing a full historical and cultural context for this great teaching inspires an understanding of its contemporary relevance, while the clarity of Mu Soeng’s prose makes sophisticated Buddhist scholarship available to all interested readers.” —Sylvia Boorstein

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n this lovely, meditative exploration of ikebana—the Japanese art of flower arranging—Joan Stamm shows us how her twin paths of Buddhist practice and artistic endeavor converge and indeed become thoroughly intertwined. Joan’s lush, elegant voice weaves childhood memories of her mother’s joy at a justbloomed morning glory with meditations on the symbolic importance of bamboo, of pine, of the lily. She takes us with her on her travels to Japan as she learns the essential principles of ikebana, and lets us join her as she teaches flower arranging to women in a nursing home who, though they won’t recall tomorrow the rules of arrangement or even the flowers’ names, nonetheless partake in the joy and love that celebrates all living things, however briefly they endure. And, when Joan shows us the natural symmetry of a blossom, we find that we too have regained our balance.

200 pages | 978-086171-577-0 | $16.95 8 page color photo insert March 2010

Joan D. Stamm received Shihan, or authorization to teach, from the Saga School of Ikebana headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. The essay that was the first seed of this book appeared in Chrysalis Reader and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review; it was subsequently picked up by Utne Reader and chosen for Best Spiritual Writing 2001.

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irst Invite Love In is a beautiful collection of exercises inspired by the ancient meditative arts of Tibetan Buddhism. Tana Pesso and the late Penor Rinpoche worked together to create this universal handbook, free of jargon or religious language, offering a gently guided course for anyone who wants live more compassionately, wisely, and with a more open and loving heart. 200 pages | 6.5 X 7.5 978-086171-285-4 | $15.95 March 2010

“If we all spend a few minutes every day trying to develop a positive compassionate mind, as explained here, eventually compassion will truly become part of our lives.” —from the foreword by the Dalai Lama

“An especially important guide at a time when so many lack confidence about how to go beyond fear and uncertainty.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith and Lovingkindness “The short exercises presented here will benefit anyone who practices them.” —Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, author of Turning the Mind into an Ally

About the Authors Tana Pesso holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She has worked extensively as a personal coach and an executive consultant. She lives in Rockport, MA. She has spent the last decade as student of many prominent Buddhist teachers, including Penor Rinpoche. Penor Rinpoche, one the most important teachers of his time, was the head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in 1932 in Eastern Tibet, he was renowned by all as an exemplary master of the Tibetan tradition. He tirelessly taught devoted students around the world. He passed away in 2009.

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Winter 2010 Titles zogchen, or the “Great Perfection,” is considered by many to be the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam, one of Tibet’s greatest writers and sages, is the preeminent master of Dzogchen. This book presents all the radical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the way to absolute liberation from conceptual fetters and pure, natural integration into the nature of one’s true being. Transcending the Tibetan context or even the confines of Buddhist tradition, Longchen Rabjam delivers a manual full of practical wisdom. Natural Perfection is a shining example of why people have continued to turn to the traditions of Tibet for spiritual and personal transformation and realization. This transmission of timeless wisdom will take its place among the religious classics of the world.

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304 pages | 978-086171-640-1 | $17.95 March 2010

Longchen Rabjam (1308–69) is the most recognizable and revered master in the history of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Well known and regarded as the premiere expositor of the methods, paths, and results of Dzogchen practice, Longchen Rabjam is a peerless figure in the world of Dzogchen. Keith Dowman is the author of several books on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, including Flight of the Garuda and Sky Dancer. He lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is the founder of the Dzogchen Community, an international network of Dharma centers, clinics, and the first Tibetan medical college to be established in the West.

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FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK—AT A NEW LOW PRICE! “We owe a great debt to Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura for this monumental translation. ”—Inquiring Mind

ihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one of the world’s most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life. He is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shobogenzo (“Treasury of the True Dharma Eye”), represents his early teachings and exists in myriad English translations; the second work, the Eihei Koroku, is a collection of all his later teachings, including short formal discourses to the monks training at his temple, longer informal talks, and koans with his commentaries, as well as short appreciatory verses on various topics. The Shobogenzo has received enormous attention in Western Zen and Western Zen literature, and with the publication of this watershed volume, the Eihei 828 pages | 978-086171-670-8 | $26.95 March 2010 Koroku is now rising to commensurate stature. Dogen’s Extensive Record is the first-ever complete translation of this monumental work into English—a classic that belongs in the library of any student or scholar of Zen. This edition also includes an extensive index and concordance of names.

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Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and the San Francisco Zen Center with Dharma transmission from Reb Anderson Roshi. Leighton began formal Soto practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center with Kando Nakajima Roshi and graduated in East Asian Studies from Columbia College. He is author of Faces of Compassion and Visions of Awakening Space and Time, and is co-translator and editor of several Zen texts, including Cultivating the Empty Field. He now leads the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago. Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (author of Opening the Hand of Thought). He is the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco, and is the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with his family. He is also the author of Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen’s Shobogenzo (Wisdom, Spring 2010).

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he massive outpouring of consumer products available to most people living in the West today might alone lead one to ask, “How much is enough?” But at the same time, if we allow ourselves to see the social, political, economic, and environmental consequences of the system that produces such a mass of “goods,” then the question is not simply a matter of one’s own personal choice, but points to the profound importance of our dayto-day decisions. This collection brings together essays from an international conference jointly sponsored by Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and the Institute of Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley. The effects of our own decisions and actions on the human environment are examined from several different perspectives, all informed by Buddhist thought. The contributors are all simultaneously Buddhist scholars, practitioners, and activists—and this powerful collection demonstrates the integral unity of theory and practice for Buddhism.

240 pages | 978-086171-685-2 | $16.95 March 2010

Richard K. Payne is dean and professor of Japanese Buddhism and religion at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California. A member of the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological Union, he is also a collaborating researcher with the Open Research Center for Humanities, Science, and Religion, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. He is also an ordained Shingon priest and the editor of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia.

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Spring 2010 Titles “Rafe Martin is an amazing storyteller.” —Arthur A. Levine, editor and publisher of Harry Potter Two-Color Interior! his beautifully illustrated storybook for adults and young people alike inspires us to ask, “Wouldn’t it be a better world if we all had the courage to put the wellbeing of others above ourselves?” This is the story of The Banyan Deer. This inspiring tale reminds us that no one can be truly at peace unless we all have a chance for peace, freedom, and happiness. The Banyan Deer is a wonderful, heart-warming gift for anyone who loves a great story.

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48 pages | hardcover | 5.5 X 6.5 978-086171-625-8 | $15.00 April 2010

Rafe Martin is the recipient of the 2008 Empire State Award, three American Library Association Notable Book Awards, four Parent’s Choice Gold Awards, two Anne Izard Storyteller’s Choice Awards, an American Folklore Society Aesop’s Accolade award, several American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists,” an IRA Teacher’s Choice Award and many other awards of distinction. His work has been cited in TIME Magazine, Newsweek, U.S News and World Report, and USA TODAY. The Women’s National Book Association has honored him with their Lucille Micheels Pannell award. Richard Wehrman was born in St. Louis and attended the Washington University school of fine arts. His award-winning paintings have been exhibited at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Artists Guild, and Washington University. He was chosen as a Rochester Communicator of the Year for illustration and has received a gold medal from the National Society of Illustrators. He serves on the board of directors of the Heartwork Institute and lives in upstate New York.

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oth broad and deep, this eye-opening book is one of the best overviews available of the radical psychological teachings that underlie the Buddhist approach to living a life of freedom and peace. Sophisticated without being daunting, brilliantly clear without becoming simplistic, Andrew Olendzki’s writing is filled with rich phrases, remarkable images, and the fruits of decades of careful thought. Grounded in deep scholarship, psychological sophistication, and many years of teaching and personal practice, this much-anticipated collection of essays will appeal to anyone looking to gain a richer understanding of Buddhism’s experiential tools for exploring the inner world.

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160 pages | 978-086171-620-3 | $15.95 April 2010

Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., was trained in Buddhist Studies at Lancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and the University of Sri Lanka. The former executive director of the Insight Meditation Society, he is currently the executive director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Barre, MA. He is editor of the Insight Journal.

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imely and audacious, Buddha at the Apocalypse challenges us to look directly at the devastating assumptions underlying the very mechanisms of the modern world. We believe with certainty in the inevitable forward march of what we take to be progress, in the natural rightness of humankind’s efforts to subdue and control our environment, and most pervasively, most dangerously, and most subtly in the paradigm of the epic struggle of righteousness against evil that requires utter destruction—an apocalypse that will end time itself—before all can once again be unchangingly right with the world. And it’s increasingly easy to find verification that the apocalypse is fast approaching, and easier still to see how the spirit of apocalypse is taking over great numbers of hearts and minds. The images of apocalypse pervade our language, our politics, and with the coming of 2012, vividly pervade even our escapist entertainment. 260 Pages | 978-086171-582-4 | $16.95 In Buddha at the Apocalypse, Kurt Spellmeyer May 2010 offers us an alternative view that comes like a breath of cool fresh air in these burning times. Drawing on the teaching and tradition of Buddhism and Zen, Spellmeyer shows us an alternative—a healing, whole-making perspective and a clarion call to awaken from the culture of destruction into a natural, sustainable, and sane peace.

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Kurt Spellmeyer is an award-winning teacher and scholar in the English department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Rinzai Zen Master. He is the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for theTwenty-first Century and several other books. Robert Thurman currently teaches at Columbia and was chosen by TIME as one of the twenty-five most influential people of 1997. He is the author of numerous books.

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480 pages | 978-086171-590-9 | $39.95 May 2010

or more than half a century, David Seyfort Ruegg, an independent scholar affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, has been publishing precise, informed, and seminal works on the history and philosophy of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Central to this highly regarded oeuvre have been his works on Madhyamaka (Middle Way) philosophy, the core doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism that has animated thinkers for two millennia. Whether engaging in focused philological analysis, translating texts, or weighing in on larger trends in the field of Buddhist studies, Ruegg shows here why other scholars so often turn to him for insights and perspective. Drawing on decades of exhaustive and authoritative research and scholasticism, The Philosophy of the Middle Way represents a lifetime of work and dedication to the study and presentation of Buddhist philosophy. This volume of the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series is a gift to all who are interested in drawing on the wisdom of a masterful scholar and a profound tradition of thought.

About the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism Series This series provides a forum for publishing outstanding new contributions to scholarship on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and also to make accessible seminal research not widely known outside a narrow specialist audience, including translations of appropriate monographs and collections of articles from other languages. The series strives to shed light on the Indic Buddhist traditions by exposing them to historical-critical inquiry, illuminating through contextualization and analysis these traditions’ unique heritage and the significance of their contribution to the world’s religious and philosophical achievements. We are pleased to make available to scholars and the intellectually curious some of the best contemporary research in the Indian and Tibetan traditions.

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From the author of the bestselling How to Meditate.

wakening the Kind Heart offers powerful and inviting techniques to touch the kindness within, all in a way that will allow you to practice them in your daily life. The powerful teachings in this small book are an open invitation to living and loving with a genuinely awakened heart of kindness.

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Praise for How to Meditate “An excellent and engaging book for anyone interested in learning how to meditate.” —Thubten Chodron, author of Open Heart, Clear Mind

168 pages | 978-086171-695-1 | $15.95 June 2010

“Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this book has jewels of wisdom and practical experience to inspire you. Kathleen McDonald comes from a long and trustworthy lineage. In How to Meditate, she shares the best of what she has received.” —Richard Gere

Kathleen McDonald was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1974. She is a respected and inspiring teacher in the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, a worldwide organization of Buddhist teaching and meditation centers. She is the author of the bestselling How to Meditate and the coauthor, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche, of Wholesome Fear.

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240 pages | hardcover 978-086171-601-2 | $19.95 June 2010

ogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world’s most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical, pointing to the endless depths of Zen exploration. And almost precisely because of these facts, Dogen is often difficult for readers to understand and fully appreciate. Realizing Genjokoan is a comprehensive introduction to the teachings and approach of this great thinker, taking us on a thorough guided tour of the most important essay—Genjokoan—in Dogen’s seminal work, the Shobogenzo. Indeed, the Genjokoan is regarded as the pinnacle of Dogen’s writings, encompassing and encapsulating the essence of all the rest of his work. Our tour guide for this journey is Shohaku Okumura, a prominent teacher in his own right, who has dedicated his life to translating and teaching Dogen. This volume also includes an introduction to Dogen’s life from Hee-Jin Kim’s classic, Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, with updated annotations by Okumura.

About the Author Shohaku Okumura is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi (author of Opening the Hand of Thought). He is the former director of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco. He is the founding teacher of the Sanshin Zen Community, based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives with his family. He is also the co-translator of Dogen’s Extensive Record.

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n fresh and inviting language and making frequent use of strikingly clear diagrams and illustrations, Unlearning the Basics challenges many of our commonsense understandings about ourselves and the world. The author lays out a new way of seeing that enables us to live more serenely, more compassionately, and more free from the slings and arrows of our busy lives. Along the way, Rishi Sativihara looks at love and grasping, at “the great unfixables,” and at how vulnerability and pain feed the “evolution of character”—all in the service of helping us return to our true home and find new ways to flourish. Grounded in the Buddhist tradition yet completely free from the formulas of traditional, tired presentations, Unlearning the Basics has an informal, straightforward style that will immediately captivate the reader. 140 pages | 978-086171-572-5 | $14.95 July 2010

Dr. Rishi Sativihari is a former Buddhist monk, trained and ordained in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka. He has worked as a clinical psychologist for the University of Toronto and currently he is involved in interfaith ministry with the United Church of Canada, His current project is the design of a spiritual rehabilitation program for clergy suffering from burnout. Mu Soeng is the co-director of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the author of The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World, Trust in Mind, and The Heart of the Universe.

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Backlist Bestsellers The Middle Way Faith Grounded in Reason The Dalai Lama 200 pages, hardcover, 978-086171-552-7, $19.95

Saltwater Buddha A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea Jaimal Yogis 256 pages, 978-086171-535-0, $14.95

Mindfulness in Plain English Bhante Henepola Gunaratana 224 pages, 978-086171-321-9, $14.95

How to Meditate A Practical Guide Kathleen McDonald 288 pages, 978-086171-341-7, $14.95

How to Be Happy Lama Zopa Rinpoche 144 pages, 978-086171-196-3, $9.95

Hardcore Zen Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth About Reality Brad Warner 224 pages, 978-086171-380-6, $14.95

Money, Sex, War, Karma Notes for a Buddhist Revolution David R. Loy 176 pages, 978-086171-558-9, $15.95

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Tibetan Art Calendar 2010

YEAR OF THE IRON TIGER

16.5” x 23.5” wall calendar ISBN 0861716353, $28.95 retail Available Now Discount Schedule: 40% Returnable / 50% non-returnable Case Quantity: 10 Calendars

Sacred Buddhist thangkas, the beautiful masterpieces seen in Wisdom Publication’s Tibetan Art Calendar, are highly sought-after and have become collector’s items for art enthusiasts around the globe. As a result, the best of these works—in private hands or even museum collections—are seldom, if ever, available for public viewing. This is why Wisdom’s Tibetan Art Calendar is so special—it’s an affordable way to enjoy incredibly rare and meaningful works of ancient art, year-round. These thirteen sacred paintings by Tibetan master painters encompass a variety of classical images, including mandalas, deities, and icons. Each poster-sized picture is produced to the highest German printing standards and is perfect for framing. Complete with in-depth explanations of their cultural and philosophical significance, these exquisite fine art reproductions will be treasured for years to come.

This elegant 24” X 17” European art–style calendar makes the perfect gift.

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