Tibet and India
Subtitle: Buddhist traditions and transformations
By: Kurt Behrendt
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Buddhist art and symbolism; Exhibitions; Influence
Description: "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.