Collection highlights : the Rubin Museum of Art. 

Collection Highlights:The Rubin Museum of Art features 108 works—an auspicious number in Tibetan culture with significance extending into Hinduism and even into popular Western culture—that were chosen by the curatorial team to offer a sense of the geographic, cultural, and chronological breadth of the Museum’s holdings. Stunning visuals are accompanied by brief descriptions that will speak to both lovers of art from the Himalayan region and those who are new to this rich tradition. A special fold-out panel presents the Museum’s Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room.

With contributions by Jan Van Alphen, Beth Citron, Karl Debreczeny, David Jackson, Christian Luczanits, Elena Pakhoutova, and Kathryn Selig Brown

Female Buddhas : women of enlightenment in Tibetan mystical art / Glenn H. Mullin with Jeff J. Watt ; art from the collection of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation ; photographs of Tibet by Marcia Keegan.

Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and index.

Pt.1: 1. An overview of the tradition. In praise of the feminine ; Male & female Buddhas ; Buddha Shakyamuni ; The Buddhist legend in India ; The Sutra way ; The doctrine of the Three Kayas ; Tantra, mantra & mandala ; The Tantra way ; Three jewels, three roots & three types of female Buddhas ; Tibetan mystical art as pictorial language ; The story of Tibetan mystical art ; Concluding reflections. -- pt. 2. Treasures from the Rubin Collection. Arya Tara ; Healing trinity ; Female Buddhas with an agenda ; The Yum in Yab Yum ; The Vajra Dakinis ; Female Buddhas & their mandalas ; Female Dharma protectors ; Great female lineage masters. -- pt. 3. Epilogue. A Dakini song from the Seventh Dalai Lama.

Buddhist scholar, Mullin, a specialist on Tibet, put together a Tibetan exhibition at the Oglethopre University Museum of Art in Atlanta from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, and wrote this accompanying text. He discusses the feminine in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan mystical art, then comments on the art works, which are reproduced in color. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Paradise and plumage : Chinese connections in Tibetan Arhat painting / by Rob Linrothe.

Catalogue of an exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, May 20-22 Aug. 22, 2004 and at the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, Sept. 25, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-44).

The 16 Arhats are considered to have been either the actual disciples of the Buddha or followers who lived soon after his time. Featuring descriptions of artworks accompanied by color photographs, this exhibition catalog explores the relationship between Chinese and Tibetan images of these enlightened, more-than-human, beings. The volume has been published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name which is being held at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York in 2004.

The encyclopedia of Tibetan symbols and motifs / Robert Beer.

Summary: "This study of the sacred art of Tibet is the result of eight years of meticulous brush drawing, and a life-time spent researching and reflecting upon the inner and often hidden meanings and origins encapsulated in this most complex of iconographical traditions. Several thousand individual drawings arranged as a series of 169 plates illustrate the many variations in style and individual expression of these ritual objects. The text interweaves the origins, meanings and functions of these symbols, derived from India, Tibet and China, into a comprehensive tapestry within a Buddhist conceptual framework. This book will become a classic not only for all those interested in Tibetan religious culture, but for artists, designers and others who look eastwards in a search for meaning."

The Tibetan iconography of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and other deities : a unique pantheon / Lokesh Chandra and Fredrick W. Bunce.