THE CIRCLE OF BLISS: Buddhist Meditational Art by John C. Huntington and Dina BangdelThis volume, catalogue of a major exhibition at the LA County Museum of Art in 2003, aims to fill a lacuna in scholarship by demonstrating that the function of Himalayan Buddhist art is to interpret and give physical form to specific Buddhist practices. It points the way to an entirely new direction for the study of the visual representations of the Cakrasamvara and other key Tantras. The works of art are presented in their socio religious context,