Boldly reinterpreting an age-old artistic style of painting, this beautiful edition of Celestial Gallery showcases intricately rendered Tibetan-style mandalas, reproduced from a precious collection of magnificent scroll paintings. master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of monks have rendered Nepalese contemporary versions of deities such as White Tara, Medicine Buddha, Dakini mandala, and other Buddhist iconography in powerful detail and colors.
The Buddha's message, echoed in the visionary thangka paintings of Shrestha, speaks to the desire for a sense of love, completion, and connectedness with the world around us. Presented in new contexts unconstrained by religious and artistic convention, Celestial Gallery offers an opportunity for a fresh awakening to the spirit of the tradition as it is pushing the boundaries in our world today.
Celestial Gallery, Romio Shrestha, Mandala Publishing, Hardcover 10 x 14.5 inch, 2009, 64 Pages
Romio Shrestha is a master of the artistic traditions of Nepal and Tibet. Shrestha's magnificent collection, Celestial Gallery, has sold more than fifty thousand copies. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu valley of Tibet. Shrestha's work can be found in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and Tibet House in New York City.
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