Dr. Martin Brauen is a highly dedicated ethnologist with intensive fieldwork research

experience in the Himalayas/Tibet and India – ethnology being the branch of

anthropology that analyzes and compares human cultures, most particularly their

social structure, language, religion and technology. He is arguably the most

knowledgeable curator specializing in this region of the world. Dr. Brauen was

employed by the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich since joining its

staff as an assistant curator in 1971. In 1979, he was promoted to the post of Deputy

Director and Head of the Department of Himalaya/Tibet and the Far East. He was

once again promoted in 1987, this time to the prestigious position of Curator/Head of

the Department of Himalaya/Tibet, Japan and China. From 1999 -2008, he held the

position of Senior Curator of the same department.

"Brauen's book is one of the clearest and most lucid expositions of mandala theory and practice to appear in recent years. As such, it is destined to become a classic both in the classroom and in the public reader's library." Prof. Frank Korom, Boston University.

http://aras.org/docs/00030MandalaBrauen.pdf