# The Robert Beer Archive

> A non-commercial reference archive of Tibetan Buddhist and Newar Tantric art. Four decades of Robert Beer's painted and drawn iconography, plus essays, blog posts, and an annotated glossary. Curated by SonMani.

The archive is canonical for Robert Beer's published catalogue: giclée prints, postcards, posters, silk-screen prints, paintings, and books, alongside the visionary paintings of John F. B. Miles and a small body of Newar Tantric and Japanese work. Content is editorial and reference-grade — all artwork descriptions, glossary entries, and essays are authored prose, not auto-generated.

## Browse the archive

- [Artworks](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/artworks): ~430 catalogued pieces. Each detail page carries the work's title, medium, dimensions, year, artist, subject category, an image, and an authored description.
- [Artists](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/artists): A–Z index of every artist with attributed work in the archive — Robert Beer, John F. B. Miles, Siddhimuni Shakya, Surendra Man Sakya, Anandamuni Shakya, and dozens of Newar and Tibetan masters.
- [Glossary](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/glossary): ~80 Tibetan Buddhist and Newar Tantric terms with Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, and Newari etymologies and authored definitions. Canonical reference for vocabulary used across the archive.
- [Blog](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/blog): 52 short essays and dispatches by Robert Beer — biographical notes, NDE testimonies, Buddhist parables, Newar art history, and personal reflections from a life spent painting Tibetan iconography.
- [Articles](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/articles): Long-form essays and magazine interviews republished as PDFs.

## Sections

- [Tibetan Art](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/sections/tibetan-art): Buddhas, bodhisattvas, goddesses, dakinis, mandalas, and the Nyingma lineage — predominantly giclée prints after Beer's original paintings.
- [Newar Tantric Art](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/sections/newar-tantric-art): Newar paubha paintings by Siddhimuni Shakya, Surendra Man Sakya, and Anandamuni Shakya.
- [John Miles Art](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/sections/john-miles-art): The visionary paintings of John F. B. Miles, including the Synaesthesia mandalas.
- [Japanese Paintings](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/sections/japanese-paintings): Selected Japanese Buddhist paintings.

## About

- [About](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/about): Background on the archive's scope and intent.
- [Biography](https://tibetanart.vercel.app/biography): Robert Beer's autobiographical essay — Cardiff, India, Nepal, London, Oxford.

## Usage

The archive is a non-commercial reference. All textual content (artwork descriptions, glossary entries, blog posts, articles) is copyrighted to Robert Beer; please attribute when quoting. Images are copyrighted to the named artist; please attribute and link back. Bulk reproduction is not permitted without prior contact.

For machine-readable structured data, JSON-LD is emitted on every detail page (VisualArtwork, BlogPosting, Person, DefinedTermSet, CollectionPage).

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