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Ngor Mandala Collection
By: Lokesh Chandra, Musashi Tachikawa & Sumie Watanabe

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Author: Lokesh Chandra, Musashi Tachikawa & Sumie Watanabe
Format: Hardcover, 8.75" x 11.25"
Publication Date: 2006

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Scholars of the Ngor Monastery belonging to the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism started to compose a systematic work of theories and practices of Indian and Tibetan mandalas in 1870 and finished its publication by 1894. The title of this work is the rgyud sde kun btus (Collection of the Tantras), which consists of thirty volumes. The work was reprinted in India during 1971 and 1972.
Probably shortly after the completion of the compilation of texts at the Ngor Monastery, Tibetan artists began to draw mandala pictures according to the description given in those texts. Rev. bSod nams rgya mtsho, a former abbot of the Ngor Monastery, told once that three sets of the mandala pictures of the rGyud sde kun btus were painted. One of the three sets was reprinted by Rev. bSod nams rgya mtsho from Kobansha in 1983.
Dr. Lokesh Chandra published a set of line drawings of the Ngor Mandala Collection in 1967. The set of mandala collection used for the line drawings has been reproduced in this volume. This set seems to be the second set out of the three sets. As for the third, nothing clear is known.
No one can deny that the Ngor Mandala Collection is one of the most authorative Tibetan mandala collections.

Ngor Mandala Collection, Lokesh Chandra, Musashi Tachikawa & Sumie Watanabe, Vajra Publications, 2006, 136 Colour Plates, $59.95

Prof. Lokesh Chandra is a renowned scholar of Tibetan, Mongolian and Sino-Japanese Buddhism.. He has to his credit voer 400 works and text editions. Among them are classics like his Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary. Materials for a History of Tibetan Literatue, Buddhist Iconograpy of Tibert and the present Dictionary of Buddhist Iconography.
Musashi Tachikawa is Professior Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka is pulications include the Stuctue of the World of Udayana’s Realism.
Sumi Watanabe is a graduate student of Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan

Contents: A Ngor Mandala Collection

1. Preface v

2. Foreword vii

3. Introduction 1

4. The 139 Mandalas of the rGyud sde kun btus 13

5. Plates 19

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