CELESTIAL GALLERY

Romio Shrestha
Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Afterword by Robert A.F.Thurman, Ph.D.

Pub Date: February 2005

Category: Art/Buddhism
ISBN 1-932771-21-2
Price: $75.00, (CAN $99.95)
Format: 16 ½ x 24 inches, five-color,
39 full color Illustrations
Page Extent: 64 Pages
Binding: Hardbound
All Rights Available

The Pitch
Found in museums and galleries worldwide, this is a unique collection of 39 striking Tibetan style mandala scroll paintings from one of the
foremost artists in the field, presented here in a dramatic oversized format.

Sales Points
• Foreword by Deepak Chopra; Afterword by Robert Thurman, Ph.D.
• Each work is hand-bound and stands two feet high, making an impressive window display.
• Reproduced for the first time by a world class Nepali thangka artist and his team of artisan monks, this striking collection of 39
magnificent full color paintings is sure to be a collector’s item.
• The materials for painting are hand-ground from malachite, lapis, marigolds and more and at times are painted with three hairs of a cat’s tail.

This Book Will Sell Like

Thangka:The Sacred Painting of Tibet 817303186X Pilgrims Publishing 2002
Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing 0835607100 Quest Books 1995

Author Information
Romio Shrestha is a master in the artistic traditions of Nepal and Tibet. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu
Valley of Nepal, painting in the Newari style. Shrestha’s work is represented in The British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum,
American Museum of Natural History, and Tibet House in New York City. His first book of paintings is entitled The Tibetan Art of Healing.
Shrestha lives in Kathmandu and Ireland.

Other title by this author

The Tibetan Art of Healing, Co-Author Ian Baker 0811818977 Chronicle Books 1997

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