 Buddhist Symbols in Tibetan Culture Symbolism is the language of the human spirit, and this book is the most systematic study of its Tibetan idiom that has yet appeared. --Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions.  The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs 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. The Goddess Speaks Myths, Meditations, Symbols & Sacred Sites.  Jesus Christ, Sun of God Fideler spends the first half of the book demonstrating that there is a deeply evolved amount of symbolism in the texts of the N.T. that started 500 years (give or take) before Christ's time (and likely farther back than that). Symbolism that is communicated in numerical metaphors, imagery, harmonics and in poetry and myth that express higher (ineffable?) concepts.  Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe An objective analysis of pagan beliefs and practices, mostly in Viking and Celtic times. Davidson gives well -documented explanations of such things as holy places, feasting and sacrifice, rites of battle, land-spirits and ancestors, foreknowledge and destiny. |