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Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images: Texts, Initiation Cards and Prayer Flags in the Royal Library and the National Museum, Copenhagen apple_store This book explores a relativelyBy Anne Burchardi This visually stunning catalogue presents c. 300 iconographical materials and texts from the Tibetan collections of the Royal Library and the National Museum of Denmark. Most of the entries describe such iconographical materials as mandalas, elemental divination paintings, ritual tsakli cards and prayer flags. Unique handwritten meditation manuals, a Mongolian Book of the Dead, illuminated manuscripts as well as philosophical and