Sunday, May 03, 2009
Sacred Art of Bhutan
Currently, an amazing exhibit of the sacred art of Bhutan is showing at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Most of these items have never before left Bhutan, and they are prized not as art works but as sacred objects, reverenced in ceremony and worship. This exhibit will be displayed in only a few major cities of the world.
If you are interested in seeing the kinds of sacred sculpture and thangka painting contained in this collection, go to the link below, which carried wonderful photographs of the highlights of this exhibit.
P. S. Monks traveling with the exhibit conduct ceremonies twice a day to insure the purity of the items, cleansing the entire collection from contamination by the spectators. They are doing sacred painting, sacred dance, and sacred chant.
(picture from exhibit website)
