Gyuto : monastic life / photographs by Tobi Wilkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkinson, Tobi, author, photographer.

Contributor:

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- writer of foreword.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist monasteries.

Tantric Buddhism--Rituals.

Tantric Buddhism.

Dharmsāla (India)--Pictorial works.

Dharmsāla (India).

India.

India--Dharmsāla.

Gyuto Monks--Pictorial works.

Gyuto Monks.

Tantric Buddhism--India--Pictorial works.

Tantric Buddhism--Rituals--Pictorial works.

Buddhist monasteries--India--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Distribution:

Rhode Island : Meridian Printing.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Lustrum Press, [2019]

Summary:

The Tibetan monks of the Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala, northwestern India, are well-known for their strict discipline and their maintenance and practice of the tantric tradition as transmitted within the Gelugpa order. The monastery itself was founded in 1474 by a disciple of the founder of the Gelugpa order, and is thus representative of a special lineage. Over the centuries, its systems of tantric ritual have spread to thousands of monasteries within Tibet, Mongolia, Ladhak and elsewhere. In this beautiful clothbound volume, Australian photographer Tobi Wilkinson portrays the life of this monastery. Wilkinson's color and black-and-white photographs focus on monastic rituals, the movements and the objects of those movements: the draping of a monk's robe; the preparation of food; prayer, meditation, offerings and chanting; votive objects and their care. Gyuto includes a foreword from the Dalai Lama that underscores the importance of this monastery.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrations.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0692041370

9780692041376

OCLC:

1089221337

Publisher Number:

9780692041376 hardcover