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Kuenga Wangmo ’04 would, however, disagree strongly with those who think Buddhism can be boiled down to a philosophy. Wangmo is from a place where Buddhism is the official religion??Bhutan, a small country nestled between India and Tibet. For her, the power of Buddhism is more than philosophy. “Philosophy—it’s just reasoning,” Wangmo says while sitting on her bed, over which an image of the Buddha, framed by the traditional white scarf of good luck, is hung. “I don?...
...reeks of revisionism, to borrow Bush’s word, to call U.N. involvement a victory for the administration. It’s a beautiful thing to convince an alcoholic that he needs treatment, or religion??or both in Bush’s case—but it’s only a victory insofar as admitting defeat and ending denial are the first steps to starting over. Just as when Congress approved $87 billion for reconstruction on Friday, the U.N.’s unanimous vote was more about resignation than confidence...
BUDDHIST ART: THE LATER TRADITION. This exhibit explores Chinese, Korea and Japanese works of art from the 8th to the 18th century, including paintings, sculptures, sutras (Buddhist sacred texts), ritual objects and textiles. Buddhist art evolved immensely during these ten decades. Early Buddhist art emphasized the religion??s major deities; Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and human and animal guardians, whereas later Buddhist art, which evolved largely in East Asia and changed due to the Buddhist church’s becoming increasingly sectarian, accentuated on the a wider variety of subject matter and style. This ranges from the furious deities...
BUDDHIST ART: THE LATER TRADITION. This exhibit explores Chinese, Korea and Japanese works of art from the 8th to the 18th century, including paintings, sculptures, sutras (Buddhist sacred texts), ritual objects and textiles. Buddhist art evolved immensely during these ten decades. Early Buddhist art emphasized the religion??s major deities; Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and human and animal guardians, whereas later Buddhist art, which evolved largely in East Asia and changed due to the Buddhist church’s becoming increasingly sectarian, accentuated on the a wider variety of subject matter and style. This ranges from the furious deities...
Less known about his career, though, is that six years later he shifted his focus from the profane to the sacred, undertaking a massive mural cycle for the Boston Public Library. Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion?? is now being restored for the first time in a half-century by the Harvard University Art Museums’ Straus Center for Conservation...