The Newar artists of the Nepal were the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley. The Newars were the direct inheritors of the unique artistic traditions of the late Pala dynasties of Eastern India.
This diagram illustrates the six principal chakras of the Hindu kundalini-yoga system, which are represented here within the ‘subtle-body’ of a naked yogin with matted hair...
Shiva, the great ascetic lord, is shown here in his dynamic and cosmic aspect as Nataraja, the ‘Lord of the Dance’. In tandava, or ‘bow-and-arrow’ posture, he dances upon the...
Shiva, the great ascetic lord, is shown here in his dynamic and cosmic aspect as Nataraja, the ‘Lord of the Dance’. In tandava, or ‘bow-and-arrow’ posture, he dances upon the...
Ardhanarishvara, meaning the ‘Lord who is half woman’, is a composite form of Shiva and his consort Shakti (Parvati), fused into one body as Shiva-Shakti. In this beautiful print...
Shiva, the great ascetic lord, is shown here in his dynamic and cosmic aspect as Nataraja, the ‘Lord of the Dance’. In tandava, or ‘bow-and-arrow’ posture, he dances upon the...
This diagram illustrates the six principal chakras of the Hindu kundalini-yoga system, which are represented here within the ‘subtle-body’ of a naked yogin with matted hair...
Sathya Sai Baba (1926-2011) was and remains India’s most famous, revered, and laterally somewhat controversial miracle-working guru. His charisma, clairvoyance, magnetism and...
Mahalakshmi, or ‘Great Lakshmi’, is as one of the ‘eight mother goddesses’ of the Newar tradition, who serve as guardians of the eight directions and as consorts to the ‘eight Bhairavas’ or...
Ardhanarishvara, the ‘Lord who is half woman’, is a composite form of Shiva and his consort Parvati (Shakti), fused into one body as Shiva-Shakti. A legend relates how...
Ardhanarishvara, the ‘Lord who is half woman’, is a composite form of Shiva and his consort Parvati (Shakti), fused into one body as Shiva-Shakti. A legend relates how...
This magnificent painting depicts Chinnamasta, the ‘severed headed’ yogini, who is one of the ten Mahavidyas or ‘great knowledge-holding’ goddesses of the Hindu tantric tradition; who...
Kali, the ‘black-one’, is one of the ten Mahavidya or ‘great-knowledge’ goddesses of the Hindu tradition, and a wrathful manifestation of Devi or Parvati, Shiva’s consort. She is shown...
Bhairava, the ‘terrible’, is the wrathful aspect of Shiva-Mahadeva, and he has eight principal manifestations that serve as guardians of the eight directions and as consorts to...
The goddess Ganga is the divine personification of the River Ganges, now the most sacred of India’s great life-giving rivers. Originally this heavenly river was believed to flow from the toes of Lord...
Mahalakshmi, or ‘Great Lakshmi’, is as one of the ‘eight mother goddesses’ of the Newar tradition, who serve as guardians of the eight directions and as consorts to the ‘eight Bhairavas’...
This oil painting depicts the two-armed aspects of the mother-goddess Kaumari and her consort, Chanda Bhairava. The directional assemblies of the ‘Eight...
Within the Hindu Shaivite and Shakta Tantra traditions a deity may be worshipped in three different ways: on a gross or outer level as a figurative statue or painting; on a subtle or inner...
This magnificent painting depicts Chinnamasta, the ‘severed headed’ yogini, who is one of the ten Mahavidyas or ‘great knowledge-holding’ goddesses of the Hindu tantric tradition; who...
Ardhanarishvara, meaning the ‘Lord who is half woman’, is a composite form of Shiva and his consort Shakti (Parvati), fused into one body as Shiva-Shakti. In this beautiful print...