MOA Event: One Million Grains of Light
A group of Tibetan monks from the Dzongkar Choede monastery will be visiting the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) for a 4 day sand mandala creation. They will be here on October 24,25,27,and 28 to create and demonstrate the making of a sand mandala, and will finalize with the destruction of the piece.
Film: Tezuka Osamu’s “Buddha” to Premiere in Vancouver
Tezuka Osamu’s Buddha: The Great Departure Canadian Premiere, in Japanese with English subtitles *One Night Only* Where: Pacific Cinemateque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver When: Tuesday, September 11 7:30 pm Tickets: $8 at www.moa.ubc.ca/eventtickets Check out the premiere’s Facebook Event. For a PDF poster, click here. Presented by the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Canadian Society for Asian Arts, and UBC Buddhism and […]
Photos from “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art” Conference
About this Event Original post for the event HERE Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art, the conference organized by UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, was held last July 6 to 8, 2012, at the CK Choi Building and the Museum of Anthropology. This conference was held in conjunction with the Visions of Enlightenment exhibition (also […]
Keynote Address: Cynthea Bogel
Professor Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University, will present a keynote address for the conference, “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”: “New Roads to Nirvana: Visual Buddhism, Modern Eyes” Date: Friday, July 6, 2012 Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm (Doors open at 7:00pm) Place: Museum of Anthropology, 6393 North West Marine Drive RSVP is required: Please click here. http://goo.gl/jHrM6 […]
Conference Panel: New Interactions with Japan Buddhist Images and Ideas
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 10:30am – 11:45am “Pilgrimage to Two Local Temples in Kyushu” Sherry Fowler (University of Kansas). By the sixteenth century many temples in Japan with a central icon of Kannon (Avalokiteśvara) were organized into different thirty-three stop pilgrimage routes covering thousands of kilometers. Over the centuries because of the success of the old […]
Conference Panel: Western Appearances
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 1:30pm – 2:45pm “Legend of the Colfax Buddha Heads: Landscape, Race, and the Visual Cultures of Buddhist Modernism” Gregory Levine (University of California at Berkeley). In 2005, the artist Casey O’Connor surreptitiously seeded hundreds of porcelain objects cast
Conference Panel: Contemporary Artists and their Buddhist Inspirations
Saturday, July 7, 2012, 9:00am – 10:15am “Changing Perspectives: Politics, Identity and Buddhism in Contemporary Sri Lankan Art” Sabine Grosser (University of Paderborn). Politics, identity and Buddhism – contemporary Sri Lankan artists are facing a complex globalized
Conference Panel: Reframing Art in Contemporary South Asian and Himalayan Context
Friday, July 6, 2012, 2:30pm – 3:45pm “Bulletproof Stupa: Framing the Buddhist Heritage of Andhra Pradesh” Catherine Becker (University of Illinois at Chicago). Buddhist art from ancient South Asia was often crafted to adorn stupas, earthen and brick relic mounds dedicated to the Buddha and eminent monks. Without the frame of a stupa or other reliquary, […]
Conference Schedule: Icons of Impermanence
“Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art” The University of British Columbia, July 6-7, 2012, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, in conjunction with the Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art at MOA exhibition. Friday, July 6, 2012 1:30pm – 2:30pm Registration, C.K. Choi Building 2:30pm – 3:45pm Panel 1: Reframing Art in Contemporary South […]
Public Lecture: Robert Thurman on Buddhist Art
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 […]