Join a museum guide for an in-depth tour of From India East: Sculpture of Devotion. Tours last approximately thirty minutes. Exhibition tours are free with museum admission and do not require reservations.
Susan Beningson explores the introduction of Buddhism into China, the evolution of the Buddha image, and how these images may have been used in ritual worship.
How the Buddha Came to Japan: Animation, Replication, and the Life of an Indian Image
Michael de Havenon is an independent scholar specializing in sculpture produced in Southeast Asia before the ninth century. In this illustrated talk he looks at how the image of Vishnu shifted as it was carried along trade routes to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia.
Hinduism has long accepted additions—to its pantheon, philosophies, devotional practices—but it has never discarded its ancient traditions. As a result the religion reveals both dizzying diversity and strong strains of continuity. Joan Cummins seeks out the commonalities between seemingly disparate images of Hindu and Buddhist deities.From India East
May 31, 2013 - July 7, 2014
From India East presents sculptures from the Asian art collection of the Brooklyn Museum. The works were chosen by the Rubin Museum’s curators to trace the development of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture back to its roots in the art of ancient India. The year-long exhibition includes art from Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. The loan was made possible by the Brooklyn Museum’s temporary closing of its Asian art galleries.
The Rubin Museum made a selection of objects according to a concept that connects with its own collection: tracing back the origins of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural art in Asia to its roots, showing the stylistic evolution by both geographic distribution and time period. This means that the oldest examples of Indian art, be they Buddhist or Hindu in origin, have been chosen as various kinds of prototypes by which a more wide-spread evolution of Asian art can be identified.
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