Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice

Landaw, a specialist in Tibetan Buddhism, and Weber, a specialist in its iconographic art, provide an overview of Tibetan art to help readers understand and better appreciate what they see when they encounter works of it. They focus on the deities and teachings of the Geluk tradition of Je Tsong Khapa, the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism they are most familiar with. Being the last of the four traditions to evolve in Tibet, they say, it synthesizes much of the other three. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)