"THE BUDDHA IMAGE: OUT OF UDDIYANA" Exhibition

Tibet House

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The “Out of Uddiyana” exhibition features a wide range of very early Buddha imagery and related artworks, including Gandharan sculptural masterpieces; early coins and seals with Buddha imagery; extremely rare bronze Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from Gandhara and Swat; significant stupas of differing sizes, styles, and materials; precious reliquaries in crystal, silver, gold, bronze and stone; ‘pilgrimage’ items in terra-cotta, bone and other materials; and important Gandhara-inspired Buddhas recovered from early Chinese cultures. This is a treasury of early Buddhist art, carefully and knowledgeably assembled over the past forty and more years.

The exhibit shows how early Buddha images and a distinctive style evolved “out of Uddiyana”­–an area nowadays known as Swat, in present-day northern Pakistan–and was transmitted along the Silk Route to Central Asia, China and beyond.

Uddiyana/Swat is also the place where the tantric Master, Padmasambhava, “Guru Rinpoche”, was born and from where he helped establish “Vajrayana” Buddhism in Tibet. In celebration, an exhibition of important large tantric metal sculptures from Tibet, Sino-Tibet and Mongolia–originally from the collection of the Tantrik Order in America in Nyack, New York (founded in the early 1900’s) and now part of the Buckingham Collections—is shown at Tibet House US, brought to the public for the first time.

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Schedule

from September 16, 2010 to May 04, 2011

Opening Reception on 2010-09-16 from 18:00 to 20:00

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