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Tibet's Secret Temple - Image Gallery

by Ian Baker January, 2016

Ian Baker is the curator of Wellcome Collection’s major winter exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple’, which uncovers the mysteries of Tantric Buddhism and the rich history of its yogic and meditation practices. Taking inspiration from a series of intricate murals that adorn the walls of the Lukhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, the exhibition showcases over 120 outstanding objects from collections around the world that illuminate the secrets of the temple, once used exclusively by Tibet’s Dalai Lamas - secret temple

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Beyul Pemako

Beyul Pemako

Beyul Pemako

Beyul Pemako

Bhutanese Yogi in Temple

Bhutanese Yogi in Temple

Bhutanese Yogi Meditating Beneath Waterfall

Bhutanese Yogi Meditating Beneath Waterfall

Bhutanese Yogi Practicing Trulkhor

Bhutanese Yogi Practicing Trulkhor

Chatral Senge Dorje Rinpoche<

Chatral Senge Dorje Rinpoche

Guhyasamaja<

The Tantric Meditational Deity Guhyasamaja - 'Secret Assembly'

Retreat Building in Himalayan Cliffs

Retreat Building in Himalayan Cliffs

Hiamalayas

Himalayas

Hiamalayas

Himalayas

Jalandhara

Jalandhara

Lukhang Murals Showing Meditations on Internal and External Lights

Lukhang Murals Showing Meditations on Internal and External Lights

Lukhang Murals Showing Yogic Movements called Trulkhor

Lukhang Murals Showing Yogic Movements called Trulkhor

Tantric Meditation Diagram

Tantric Meditation Diagram

Techniques of Inner Heat and Transferance of Consiousness

Techniques of Inner Heat and Transferance of Consiousness

The Lukhang Temple

The Lukhang Temple Rising from a Tree Covered Island Beneath the Delai Lama's Potala Palace

Three Tantric Yogis

Tibetan Chod Practioner

Tibetan Yogini Emerging from Cave

Tibetan Yogini Meditating using Woven Belt

Tibetan Yoginis

Folio

Folio

Click Here to read an Interview of Ian Baker in Sutra Journal.

Ian Baker

by Ian Baker

January, 2016

About Ian Baker

Ian Baker is an anthropologist and independent scholar who works internationally as a consultant and lecturer in environmental and cultural heritage conservation. Ian studied art history, literature, and comparative religion at Middlebury College, Oxford University, and Columbia University and Medical Anthropology at University College London. He also pursued personal and academic studies of Tantric Buddhism in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet, beginning in 1977.

He is the author of seven books on Himalayan and Tibetan culture including Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life,The Tibetan Art of Healing,The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet, andBuddhas of the Celestial Gallery. He has also contributed to both popular and academic journals and publications including National Geographic Magazine, Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (J.P. Brill), and the University of Vienna Press.

Profiled by National Geographic Society as one of seven “Explorers for the Millennium", Ian’s 2003 book, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place chronicles his numerous research expeditions into remote regions of the Himalayas and his documentation of a waterfall in the world's deepest gorge that had been the source of myth and speculation among geographers since the 19th century.

Ian served as co-curator for the Wellcome Collection’s 2015-16 exhibition ‘Tibet’s Secret Temple: Body, Mind, and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism’, a project that originated with Ian’s book entitled The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet and for which His Holiness The Dalai Lama provided extensive commentary. He is currently completing a book entitled Tibetan Yoga: Secrets from the Source that will be published later this year.


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