Celestial Gallery Meditation Deck and Stand: Divine Inspiration for Reflection, Enlightenment, and Peace

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In the tradition of the best-selling Celestial Gallery series comes a gorgeous set of oversized meditation cards complete with a wooden display stand offering inspired insights, prayers, and blessings from the wisdom journals of visionary Nepali thangka artist Romio Shrestha. Featuring a foreword and introduction from renowned spiritual leader Deepak Chopra, this deck will deepen your meditation practice and allow you to truly connect with the Divine.

Boldly reinterpreting the age-old Tibetan and Nepalese art form known as thangka, this stunning set of meditation cards offers beautifully detailed paintings from Romio Shrestha, the world-renowned artist behind the internationally best-selling books Celestial Gallery, Buddhas of the Celestial Gallery, and Goddesses of the Celestial Gallery. Depictions of White Tara, Green Tara, the Medicine Buddha, and many other celestial beings invite and inspire meditation and reflection.

Complete with a booklet that features even more images and commentary, a wooden display stand, and a velvet carrying pouch, these cards will allow you to discover the divine deities honored in these magnificent scroll paintings through guided practice and meditation.

STUNNING ART: Master painter Romio Shrestha and his team of artisan monks have created postmodern versions of these enlightened Buddha realms from hand-ground malachite, lapis, marigolds, and other rare substances. Painted at times with a mere three hairs from the tail of a cat, these multifaceted scenes of otherworldly deities are rich with hauntingly powerful detail.

WORLD-RENOWNED ARTIST: Romio Shrestha's thangkas can be found in many of the great collections of the world, including the British Museum, the Victoria Albert Museum, the Buchheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Tibet House in New York City, and the Newark Museum in New Jersey. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.

HIGH-QUALITY KIT: In addition to 25 beautiful and high-quality cards, this set includes a premium velvet carrying pouch, a booklet describing Shresthas artistic process and inspiration, and a compact wooden stand for displaying the gorgeous cards in your home to deepen your meditation practice.

COMMENTARY BY DEEPAK CHOPRA: This deck features commentary from the esteemed Deepak Chopra, an internationally bestselling author and global leader in spirituality, which provides enlightening context for this magnificent art.

Author Bio

Romio Shrestha is a modern master of the Indo-Nepali-Tibetan Buddhist traditions of enlightenment art, and his thangkas can be found in many of the great collections of the world, including the British Museum, the Victoria Albert Museum, the Buchheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Tibet House in New York City, and the Newark Museum in New Jersey. He directs a school of artist-craftsmen in the Kathmandu Valley of Tibet.