S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West

Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)

Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.

Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.

Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.

Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.

Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651

Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC

Image credit: Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305.

Image credits: Geometric nest of a pufferfish.