Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Subjects: Civilisation, Indic Mythology, Symbolen, Symbolism in art, Simbolismo, Art and mythology, Symbolisme, Art hindou, Mythologie hindoue, Civilization, Hindu Art, Civilización, Symbolik, Mythos, Hindu art, Arte hindú, Symbolism, Mythen, India Mythology, Hindu Mythology, Art, indic, Mythologie, India, History, Hindu mythology

Description: This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.