Book
The flying mystics of Tibetan buddhism
Table Of Contents
- Introduction Glenn H. Mullin
- The Tibetan legacy of the flying mystics
- Personal Reflections on Tibet's flying mystics
- The legacy of the divine madman
- Pan-Asian flying links
- Indian metaphysical roots of the flying mystics of Tibetan buddhism
- Those flying Buddhist mystics! Just how do they do it?
- Illusory body, rainbow body, and empty body
- Buddhist flying through the ages
- Various forms of mystical flying
- Siddhis, conventional and supreme
- Great paintings of Buddhist mystics in flight
- Buddha Shakyamuni with two chief disciples in flight
- Buddha Shakyamuni with Garuda Aura
- Buddha and the flying horse
- Buddha's descent from the skies
- Buddha and disciple in flight
- Buddha's disciple Maudgalyayana in flight
- Buddha and disciples fly to visit Sumagadha
- Buddha and the sixteen immortal arhats
- Arhat Ajita: walking on water
- The mischievous flyer Pindola Bharadvaja
- Buddha with the sixteen Arhats, six ornaments, and two supreme ones
- Arya Nagarjuna: Flyer extraordinaire
- Arya Asanga: feathers of birds, wings for the heavens
- Shantideva: he with but three concerns
- Atisha and flying friends
- The Bodhissatva and the flying monk
- Tsongkhapa as a sexy flying Mahasiddha
- Saraha, forefather of the Mahasiddha tradition
- Mitripa and the flying Mahasiddhas
- Learning to fly
- The Mahasiddha and the happy levitating monk
- Two Mahasiddhas in flight
- The transporting powers of love
- At play with the birds
- Padma Sambhava and the flight to copper mountain
- Flying over the tiger's Den
- Padma Sambhava as flight instructor
- The flying mystic of mount Chimpu
- The joy of flying, Nyingma style
- Yogini Yeshey Tsogyal's legacy of flight
- The naked Yogini of mount Everest
- Milarepa walking on water and other playful deeds
- Milarepa and the contest of miracles
- Flying, laughter, and enlightenment
- A Sakya legacy of miracles
- Lama Tsongkhapa and the flight to Tushita
- Maitreya, the future Buddha of love, resplendent with flyers
- Flying in sukhavati, the pure land of bliss
- The pure land of bliss: a Manchu interpretation
- The Dakinis and Khecharis: mystical sky travellers of India and Tibet
- Amelia Arenas
- Troma Nagmo Khadroma: the wrathful black Dakini
- Dorjey Khadroma: the diamond Khechari
- Dorjet Khadroma: the diamond sky traveller
- Naro Khachoma: Naropa's flyer
- The three Sakya Khecharis
- Chakrasamvara and Vajradakini in sexual union
- The flight of garuda
- Garuda and the magic emerald
- Garuda and the Elixir of life
- After matters
- The wish to fly; the fear of flying an essay List of plates
- Footnotes
Subject
Exhibitions / Mysticism / Buddhism in art / Mystics / Spiritual life / Art, Tibetan / Art, Tantric-Buddhist / Mysticism in art
Details
Published
New York : The Rubin Museum of Art, 2006
Language
English
Material
248 p.
ISBN
1932476180 / 9781932476187
Location
In Process - TCDC Bangkok Transit
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