Artistic Form and Yoga in the Sacred Images of India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3960093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heinrich Zimmer, Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Gerald Chapple, James Lawson (0000-0002-0064-539X), James B Lawson |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604649 |
| OpenAlex | W1969214757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The book is as vital today as it was the year it was written, still unmatched for the eloquence of its recognition and celebration of this inspiration of Indian --From the forewordThis 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
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Literature · Traditional medicine · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Medicine · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2012 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |