Taglar Membar, Flaming Tiger-Gods: The Bon Artisitic Tradition of Tibet

Lecture by Jasleen Kandhari
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:30 PM

C.K. Choi Building Conference Room #120, 1855 West Mall
UBC Institute of Asian Research, Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program

Bon is the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet which is not as widely known in the Western academic world and explored by scholars as Tibetan Buddhism. Indo-Tibetan art historian, Jasleen Kandhari will lecture on the artistic tradition of Bon with stylistic comparisons to Tibetan Buddhist, Mongolian and Buryiatian art. She has lectured and published extensively on Indian and Himalayan art including on the exhibition, Bon, The Magic Word at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York in the Burlington and The British Museum’s Tantric Buddhist Sculpture of Tibet collections in Asia. Jasleen Kandhari is an Indian and Himalayan art historian and was a Curator of South Asian Art at the British Library where she curated the exhibition Faith & Brotherhood: Treasures of the Sikhs.

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