The Tibetan Art of Healing
Ian A. Baker
This book is based on a revered collection, long ago considered lost, of three-hundred-year-old Tibetan than GK as: elaborate paintings that portray a philosophy of healing based on Buddhist beliefs, Ayurvedic practices and ancient shamanic traditions. Rendered by tibet's foremost traditional artist, Romio Shrestha, using the age-old techniques of painting with rich materials such as gold and lapis lazuli, these breath-taking works reward the minutest contemplation. The Tibetan art of healing is also a practical guide to our search for physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. With insights into such 'contemporary' Ailments as stress, allergies and heart disease, and chapters devoted to aspects of sexual alchemy, rejuvenation and tantric yoga, this wide-ranging study is an unprecedented journey into health and transformation, an astonishing volume as timely and revolutionary as it is sumptuous and exuberant.
Ian A. Baker is a cultural historian and the author of seven books on Tibetan Buddhism and Himalayan artand culture, including The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple and The Tibetan Art of Healing. He was joint curator of the 2016 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’ at theWellcome Collection, London. He leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan and was named by theNational Geographic Society as one of the seven ‘Explorers for the Millennium’ for his groundbreakingfield research in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorges.
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