A lavishly illustrated tour of sacred Tibetan art is presented in the context of a Buddhist shrine room and focuses on masterpieces from the Ganden Renaissance of the 15th century through 18th-century Manchu and Mongolian works.

Author Biography

Robert Thurman, a college professor and writer for 30 years, holds the first owed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America at Columbia University. A co-founder and the president of Tibet House New York, an organization dedicated to preserving the angered civilization of Tibet, he is the author of the national bestseller Inner Revolution. Thurman was the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk and shares a close, 35-year friendship with the Dalai Lama.