Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India

Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India

Art, Indic
Symbolism in art
Buddhist art -- India
Hindu art -- India
Yoga

This pioneering work opened C.G. Jung's eyes to the psychological and spiritual significance of the Indian mandala, and it remains the clearest introduction to the essence of Indian art and yoga for both the specialist and general reader. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) was the first to identify the radical difference between Western classical and Indian art. His revolutionary approach to understanding the stylized, often sexual, sacred symbols of India was simply to take them on their own terms as techniques of spiritual transformation.

Heinrich Zimmer

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press

translated from the German and edited by Gerald Chapple and James B. Lawson in collaboration with J. Michael McKnight

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