Learning From The Dalai Lama Secrets of the Wheel of Time by Karen Pandell with Barry Bryant

Learning From The Dalai Lama

Secrets of the Wheel of Time

by Karen Pandell with Barry Bryant

Photographs by John B. Taylor

Concept by Manuel C. Menendez

Dutton Children’s Books, 1995, [First Edition], ISBN 0525450637, colour photographs throughout, landscape hardcover, dustjacket 

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription erased form front end paper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, (see photographs)

“In 1991, the exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, came to Madison Square Garden in New York City to share a sacred teaching with the American public.  Here is a vibrantly beautiful picture-book exploration of that ceremony: the making of Kalachakra, or the Wheel of Time mandala, a circular sand painting that represents the most perfect state of spiritual awakening in Tibetan Buddhism.  Striking, vivid photos follow the Dalai Lama as he leads his students through each step of the initiation ceremony and supervises the making and dismantling of the sand mandala.  An informative, lucid text explains the meaning of Kalachakra, the personal history of the Dalai Lama, the life story of the Buddha, and the beginning of Buddhism, one of the world’s oldest and most popular religions.  At the end of the book is a final offering: instructions for readers who wish to make their own sand mandalas at home.”