Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images: Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen yao Laos: Culture and Society (1999)

Laos: Culture and Society (1999)

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

300 iconographical materials and texts from the Tibetan collections of the Royal Library and the National Museum of Denmark

he travelled to Thailand

By exploring the moral

Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images: Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen yao Laos: Culture and Society (1999)By 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