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| "At the great ritual occasions of Naga society, such as the Spring Festival, the Sekrengi genna, a Feast of Merit, the bringing-in of a head or a new log-gong, Naga men and women don ceremonial dress and ornaments. All is color and motion. For the Nagas, ornaments are more than a matter of aesthetics. They help make statements about, and to define, the identity of individuals and groups. Indeed the importance is such that ornaments are part of the definition of being truly human. It is only from a corpse that ornaments are removed." -Julian Jacobs in The Nagas. |
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The Nagas: Hill People of Northeast India Julian Jacobs Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998. 
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American Anthropologist A valuable pictorial supplement...will be welcomed by students of highland Northeast India and Burma. |
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The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet Ian Baker and Thomas Laird 
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Tibet's Lukhang temple, a private retreat for the Dalai Lama established in the late seventeenth century, contains what was, until the Chinese invaded, a secret meditation chamber covered with a set of extraordinary murals. These murals present a host of figures engaged in the basic cycles of life or practicing Tantric meditation techniques in pursuit of inner transformation. Instead of rejecting desire as other Buddhist practices do, Tantra harnesses this intrinsically human drive and turns it into "boundless compassion."
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India Holy Song Xavier Zimbardo Rizzoli, New York, 2000. 
| Captured over a 15-year period, Xavier Zimbardo's India Holy Song records the exquisitely color-filled experience that pervades everyday life in India. The workaday environment of a textile-dyeing factory becomes a frenzy of whooshing fabric like a moment out of a Martha Graham performance. An expansive hillside landscape shows a mythically large tree dwarfing a man in the grassy field. Cows and dogs traverse the city streets. |
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The Buddha's Art of Healing: Tibetan Paintings Rediscovered Avedon Rizzoli, 1998 
| Tibetan medicine--its ancient knowledge, its pragmatic use of herbs--is gaining increasing attention in the West. |
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The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs Robert Beer Shambhala, 1999. 
| Tibetan Buddhism has one of the most complex iconographies of any religion. Robert Beer, the artist who brought to life the saints of Tibetan Buddhism in Buddhist Masters of Enchantment, has now brought the myriad symbols of Tibetan Buddhist art to life. |
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Ring of Fire Lawrence Blair and Lorne Blair Inner Traditions Intl Ltd 1991 | The Blair brothers' 10-year adventure in the Indonesian archipelago is an unforgettable portrait of a 2,500-mile journey through the most remote, exotic and dangerous lands on earth. Over 100 photos. |
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Ganesh edited by Robert L. Brown State University of New York, NY, 1991. | Ganesh, God of Strength and Knowledge, Guardian of Portals and Transitions, Remover of Obstacles, most popular of the Indian gods, is the subject of these scholarly essays. If you really love Ganesh, find out the real story. |
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The King and the Corpse Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Joseph Campbell Princeton University Press, Princeton 1993 | Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. |
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Angkor George Coedes Oxford University Press, Singapore 1990 | |
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Indian Art Vidya Dehejia Phaidon, London, 1997. 
| This book is a worthy addition to Phaidon's excellent Art and Ideas series, which provides overviews of the major art traditions of the world. India is vast (the size of Europe); the birthplace of great religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism; and the home of sophisticated civilizations dating back more than 4,000 years. |
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