The Chakras
Date
1927
Credits
- C.W. Leadbeater Author
Format
- Book 782
Media
- paper 1569
Techniques
- illustration 179
- printing 545
Printed Pages
102
Locations Made
- India 21
This excerpt from C.W. Leadbeater's “The Chakras” shows some of the ways ancient yogic concepts and symbols were translated by mechanical design means and westernized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Leadbeater was a British Theosophist who studied religion and spirituality in India. It gives an insight into the globalization of “eastern” philosophy, beliefs and spiritual insights and how they began to be translated and the role designers played in making them commonplace symbols and practices throughout the world.
This was found while researching the history of the spread of yoga into Europe and the Americas.
Early Chakra Print and Illustration found in "The Chakras"