Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India by Heinrich Zimmer. Translated by Gerald Chappie and James B. Lawson (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. xxx + 289, 55 plates, general index, Sanskrit index, and bibliography.
摘要
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
