Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images: Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen yao Philip Hirsch is Professor of

Philip Hirsch is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney and has published widely on issues of the environment and social and economic development in Thailand and neighbouring countries

Marcel Le Blanc was one of fourteen Jesuits who arrived in Siam in 1687 at the request of King Narai to promote the study of mathematics and astrology

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he travelled to Thailand

Cecilia Milwertz has an MA in Chinese studies and cultural sociology and a PhD in Chinese Studies from Copenhagen University

Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images: Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen yao Philip Hirsch is Professor ofBy Anne Burchardi This visually stunning catalogue presents c. 300 iconographical materials and texts from the Tibetan collections of the Royal Library and the National Museum of Denmark. Most of the entries describe such iconographical materials as mandalas, elemental divination paintings, ritual tsakli cards and prayer flags. Unique handwritten meditation manuals, a Mongolian Book of the Dead, illuminated manuscripts as well as philosophical and