- HIMALAYAS - ABODE OF LIGHT
By Nicholas Roerich
With illustrations from his paintings
BOMBAY: Nalanda Publications
LONDON: David Marlowe Ltd, June 1947
pp. 176 + colour frontispiece + 1 colour and 22 monochrome plates tipped in acrossthe text
Size: 9 x7 inches
Paper-covered boards with title printed on cover and cloth spine
Condition: Very good.
The last book by the great painter, traveller and mystic, published 6 months before his death.
- THE HIMALAYAS
Illustrated by B. Sen
Introduction by M. S. RANDHAWA
NEW DELHI: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das
No date [c. 1950]
pp. 5 essay titled THE ART OF BIRESWAR SEN + 19 colour plates
Softcover with a colour plate tipped-in on cover
- THE ART OF THE ANAGARIKA GOVINDA
By R. C. TANDAN
Published in 1940 by Kitabistan, Allahabad and London, and printed in Allahabad
Issued in the Series of the Roerich Centre of Art and Culture, Allahabad
First published in 1937, this is an enlarged edition
pp. 102 with colour frontispiece which is a tipped-in plate, 21 b&w plates + 2 full-page line drawings
Has portrait of the artist with tissue guard
At the end there is a 2-page list of other publications of Roerich Centre
Size 7.5 x 5inches
Anagarika B. Govinda [1898-1985] was born Ernst Lothar Hoffmann and was of German-French origin who became a Buddhist monk. His art is obviously influenced by Roerich. He was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, and Buddhist meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism. He was also a painter and poet.
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