DHARMA VISUAL THE BUDDHIST ART OF TIBET ChogyamTrungpa, Rinpoche The symbol on the cover is the seed syllables of the Kalacakra heruka in monogram form. It pre- sents the essence ofthe teaching ofthe Kalacakra tantra. The syllables contained in it are: ha ksa ma la va ra yam, which can be divided into ten to constitute what is known as the "ten syllables of power." They represent the energy which tran- scends the relative concepts of time and space. The monogram contains the symbolism of the five elements—earth, air, fire, water, space- transmuted by the principle of sunyata or empti- ness. It also represents the 84,000 buddha- dharmas or teachings of enlightenment. Frontispiece Kurukulla (Vajrayogini as Magnetizer), 40 /&?£ \ VISUAL DHARMA: THE BUDDHIST ART OFTIBET DHARMA VISUAL THE BUDDHIST ART OF TIBET Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 1975 Shambhala Berkeley & London Shambhala Publications Inc. 2045 Francisco Street Berkeley, California 94709 and 68 Carter Lane London EC4V5EL ® 1975 Chogyam Trungpa. All rights reserved. ISBN0-87773-075-X LCC 75-3917 Distributed in the United States by Random House and in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd. Distributed in Great Britain and the Common- wealth by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London and Henley-on-Thames. Published in association with the Office of Exhi- bitions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nalanda Foundation. Printed in the United States of America. CONTENTS Letter from The Dalai Lama ix Foreword Bruce K. MacDonald xi Acknowledgments xii Introduction xiii Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 15 Catalogue of the Exhibition with plates 27 Glossary 137 Photographic credits 142 An exhibition organized by the MIT Office of Exhibitions and the Nalanda Foundation. Hayden Gallery Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts April 4-May 7, 1975 Sponsored by the MIT Committee on the Visual Arts This exhibition has been generously assisted byTheJDR3rdFund.