Artistic form and yoga in the sacred images of India / Heinrich Zimmer ; translated from the German and edited by Gerald Chapple and James B. Lawson in collaboration with J. Michael McKnight.

Author
Zimmer, Heinrich Robert, 1890-1943 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1984.
Description
xxx, 289 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

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      This pioneering work opened C.G. Jung's eyes to the psychological and spiritual significance of the Indian mandala, and it remains the clearest introduction to the essence of Indian art and yoga for both the specialist and general reader. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) was the first to identify the radical difference between Western classical and Indian art. His revolutionary approach to understanding the stylized, often sexual, sacred symbols of India was simply to take them on their own terms as techniques of spiritual transformation.
      Notes
      • Translation of: Kunstform und Yoga im indischen Kultbild.
      • Includes index.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: p. 261-267.
      ISBN
      • 0691072892 ((alk. paper))
      • 9780691072890 ((alk. paper))
      LCCN
      84042589
      OCLC
      10558882
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