Tibet and India : Buddhist traditions and transformations / Kurt Behrendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behrendt, Kurt A., 1964- author.

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist art and symbolism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--Exhibitions.

Buddhist art and symbolism.

Buddhist art and symbolism--India--Influence--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations

Contained In:

Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin New series, volume 71, number 3 (winter 2014)

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2014]

Summary:

"This exhibition singles out two periods when the Buddhist Tibetan tradition drew from outside influences to develop new vocabularies of form. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, after a period of political and religious disruption, contact with the great monasteries of North India led to considerable exchange. Looking from the Indian perspective, the exhibition examines how esoteric imagery, texts, and Vajrayana ritual practices contributed to reshaping the complex religious landscape of Tibet. Today, contemporary Tibetan artists are again addressing and incorporating ideas central to the current global reality, in an effort to recontextualize long-standing core Buddhist ideals"--The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site.

Notes:

"Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winter 2014, volume LXXI, number 3"

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 8-June 8, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references

OCLC:

879309219

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access