Tibet

Giuseppe Tucci: The Tibetan Scholar-Art Historian You May Have Never Heard Of
By Bobbie Leigh Unknown Tibet, The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting, a remarkable exhibition at the Asia Society Museum tells a virtually unknown story about the “father of Tibetan studies.” Giuseppe Tucci, brilliant scholar and linguist, is one of the least known and the most learned explorers of Himalayan culture
Mandalas: Mirrors of the Cosmos, Pathways to Enlightenment
Vajrayogini Mandala, Tibet; 18th century, Courtesy Rubin Museum of Art Reviewed by Bobbie Leigh Just as painted Russian icons are not intended to be solely artistic representations of saints, but objects of meditation and veneration, mandalas — at least for the initiated — are magic windows, pathways to the deepest