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Bibliography: Mandala

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Book Review Videos:
- Mandala Publications: Introduction
- An Illustrated History of the Mandala 1st Review
- An Illustrated History of the Mandala 2nd Review
- Mitrayogin's 108 Mandalas
- The Ngor Mandalas of Tibet (Sonam Gyatso)
- Maṇḍala: Architecture of Enlightenment (Denise Leidy)
- Tibetan Mandalas (Raghuvira & Lokesh Chandra)
- The Great Stupa of Gyantse
- Mandalas of the Bon Religion
- Mandalas, Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet


Text Books:

An Illustrated History of the Mandala: From Its Genesis to the Kalacakratantra, by Kimiaki Tanaka. Wisdom Publications, 2018. (Book Review Video).

Exhibitions with Publications:

Maṇḍala: Architecture of Enlightenment. Boston: Shambhala, 1997. Leidy, Denise, and Robert Thurman. (Book Review Video).

The Maṇḍala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. Translated by Martin Wilson. Boston: Shambhala, 1997. Brauen, Martin.

Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. Rubin Museum of Art. Martin Brauen. 2009. Publication & exhibition.

Mandala Collections: English:

Mitrayogin's 108 Mandalas: An Image Database. Kimiaki Tanaka. 2013. (Book Review Video).

Tibetan Mandalas, bsod nams rgya mtsho, Ngor Collection - 2 volumes - 1983.

--- The Ngor Mandalas of Tibet: listings of the Mandala deities [Bibliotheca codicum Asiaticorum, 4.]
Bsod-nams-rgya-mtsho; Musashi Tachikawa; Yonesuko Higashi Ajia Bunka Kenkyu Senta (Tokyo, Japan). ISBN 10: 4896566033 / ISBN 13: 9784896566031. Published by Tokyo : Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies, 1991. (Book Review Video).

--- A Ngor Mandala Collection. Paperback by Lokesh Chandra, Musashi Tachikawa, Sumie Watanabe. 2007.

--- Tibetan Mandalas (Vajravali and Tantra-samuccaya). Raghuvira and Lokesh Chandra. 1995. (Book Review Video).

Mandalas of the Bon Religion. Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano, Musashi Tachikawa. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000. Saujanya Publications, Delhi, 2002. (Book Review Video).

Mandala Collections: Tibetan:

The Structural Iconography of Buddhist Mandalas. Textual explanation in verse by Rongta Lobzang Damcho Gyatso with drawings by Dondrub Dorje.

dpal jo nang dus kyi 'khor lo'i blos bslangs dkyil 'khor chen po'i lha tshogs bzhugs so. kun dga' dga' rab kyis bsgrigs. 2010.

Jeff Watt 11-2019

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).