Posts Tagged ‘Buddha’
Processions of Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Detail, Tara. Late 17th century.
Time: until 18.07.10
Place: Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Avenue, New York
Sackler Gallery has opened an extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist shrine room for public display, for the first time.
Acknowledged by practicing Buddhists as a sacred space, this shrine room contains hundreds of superb works of Buddhist art created between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, including bronze sculptures, thangkas (scroll paintings), ritual objects, textile banners, and painted furniture. (more…)