As one of the sponsors of the Visions of Enlightenment exhibition of Buddhist Art at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA), The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Society is delighted to invite you to a lecture on the topic of Buddhist art by Prof. Robert Thurman this Sunday.
Prof. Thurman is one of the best at making Tibetan art accessible and understandable in the West and, with distinguished art historians, has collaborated in curating several important traveling exhibitions, including “Wisdom and Compassion,” “Mandala,” and “Worlds of Transformation.” Recently hailed by The New York Times as “the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism,” Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York and the first American to have been ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He has authored and coauthored over 20 books on Buddhist philosophy, practice, art and culture. A charismatic and enthusiastic speaker, Thurman lectures worldwide.
Sunday, May 27, 2012, 2:00pm at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre. Tickets available at www.moa.ubc.ca/eventtickets. Ticket price includes lecture at Frederic Wood Theatre and admission to the Museum of Anthropology.
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist at Columbia University, President of Tibet House US, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. Thurman’s work and insights are grounded in more than 35 years of serious academic scholarship. He has a B.A., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and has studied in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India and the United States. A long-time advocate of Buddhist monasticism, Thurman was ordained in 1962. He gave up his robes after several years, however, when he discovered he could be most effective in the American equivalent of the monastery, the university.
His talk is sponsored by the Canadian Society for Asian Arts, in cooperation with UBC’s Museum of Anthropology (MOA), and accompanies the exhibition Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA on display at MOA through September 30, 2012.
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