When the wealthy merchant household that employs her as a lady's maid moves from Rotterdam to England, Saskia hopes to win the heart of her employee's only son, Grinling Gibbons, and set up a business selling the beauty products she manufactures for a devoted clientele.
Golden Garland of Eloquence (Legs bshad gser phreng) is the famous Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita) commentary written by the influential Tibetan writer Tsong kha pa (1356-1419). It is Tsong kha pa's first major work, written before his better known works on Madhyamaka. It is greatly respected and much studied by all schools of Buddhism in Tibet.The Golden Garland supplements the two main Indian Perfection of Wisdom commentaries, Arya Vimuktisena's Vrtti and Haribhadra's Aloka, on which it is based. It explains the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and earlier commentaries in detail, glossing difficult words and going into detailed explanations of difficult points. It introduces the reader to some twenty works by the most important Indian Perfection of Wisdom writers, and to the earlier Tibetan traditions of Ngok and Dolpopa, and the traditions of Buton and Nyaon. This translation makes available, for the first time in English, an example of the rich Tibetan Perfection of Wisdom commentarial tradition and will be of interest to both scholars and informed general readers alike. This is the first of four volumes.
Originally published in two volumes as Boston's North Shore and Boston's Gold Coast, this is Joe Garland's affectionate history of America's most civilized resort in a new one-volume edition with never-before-published maps and photographs. Book jacket.
Colorfully decorated like Easter eggs, and nestled in a backer, the 12 miniature books found in this story book set--that's cleverly fashioned like a basket--are meant to be hidden on Easter morning and then, when they're all found, to be read in sequence.
Garland of Visions explores the generative relationships between artistic intelligence and tantric vision practices in the construction and circulation of visual knowledge in medieval South Asia. Shifting away from the traditional connoisseur approach, Jinah Kim instead focuses on the materiality of painting: its mediums, its visions, and especially its colors. She argues that the adoption of a special type of manuscript called pothi enabled the material translation of a private and internal experience of "seeing" into a portable device. These mobile and intimate objects then became important conveyors of many forms of knowledge—ritual, artistic, social, scientific, and religious—and spurred the spread of visual knowledge of Indic Buddhism to distant lands. By taking color as the material link between a vision and its artistic output, Garland of Visions presents a fresh approach to the history of Indian painting.
A Christmas card from Aunt Jeanne starts a chain of events that sends Tommy on a journey to places he has never been and guides him to a wonderful surprise.