The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide

by Christian Luczanits, Elena Pakhoutova, Karl Debreczeny

This book is the culmination of a long story that began with the acquisition of fifty-four paintings from an elderly priest, who had served in a Belgian mission in Inner Mongolia in the 1920s, by the Ethnographic Museum of Antwerp in 1977. The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide focuses on this extremely rare group of richly-detailed album leaves which illustrate the visualization practice of Sarvavid Vairocana, the All-Knowing Buddha. This beautifully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 908586643X
• ISBN13: 9789085866435
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Rubin Museum of Art
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 11.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher