Samten Gyaltsen Karmay; Jeff Watt; Rubin Museum of Art

This book, the first of its kind to be dedicated solely to the art of Bon religion and culture, aims to explore and reveal the many hidden treasures of this long-overlooked religion. The purpose of this book is to inspire an appreciation of the beauty of Bon art while simultaneously enabling an understanding of the ethos of Bon, from its obscure beginnings through to the beliefs of the million or more Bonpo practitioners of today.

Karmay, Samten Gyaltsen, and Jeff Watt. Bon, the Magic Word : The Indigenous Religion of Tibet. New York: Rubin Museum of Art; London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2007.

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