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Artistic form and yoga in the sacred images of India

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1984
ISBN
0691072892, 9780691072890
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16980562 bytes)
Pages
354\362
Topic
Religion
Time added
2024-09-14 19:56:10

Description

This pioneering work opened CG 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.Translation of : Kunstform und Yoga im indischen Kultbild, 1926.

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