Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism
This beautiful catalogue to the new Carlos Museum exhibition explores the various manifestations of the mandala, explaining its symbolism, its function as art and spiritual device, and its correlation with our physical reality. Its many full-color illustrations include the many different kinds of mandalas, including paintings, three-dimensional works, and ritual objects, all drawn from the collection of the Rubin Museum of Art as well as museum and private collections worldwide. The catalogue is now available in the Museum Bookshop, but quantities are limited. Contact the Bookshop to reserve your copy today. $70 hardcover (Carlos Museum members receive a discount)
Great WINTER Reads: THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES
Author Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, a family dynasty as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire. $16 softcover (discounted for Carlos Museum members)
UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENT: ROB Walker
On February 29, the author of Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are will join Bobbi Patterson of Emory’s Department of Religion to discuss one of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism—that suffering is caused by desire—and the complexity of navigating a culture in which “desire” is manufactured by product designers and advertising agencies. See our author appearances page for more information.
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