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Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA | Get Directions »
$10.00
Reaching across several centuries and over the highest mountains in the world, Buddhism spread from India through the narrow corridors of Central Asia into Tibet, where it has remained the primary ethical and moral compass of the Tibetan people.
Explore this journey in Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries and drawn from a private collection on long-term loan to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The central image, a five-foot-tall seated Buddha, provides the axis and symbolic core of the exhibition. This sculpture of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni is seen in a gesture of “touching the earth,” orbhumisparsa mudra, in which he calls on the earth to witness his enlightenment. From this, the central figure and the basic principle of Buddhist thought, the exhibition goes on to explore the cosmic realms of Vajrayana, the Diamond Vehicle of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.
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| Where | UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 |
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| Time | 11:00 am–5:00 pm |
| Who to bring | Everyone |
| Website | http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu |
| Phone | (510) 642-0808 |
| bampfa@berkeley.edu | |
| Price | $10 general/$7 teens, disabled, seniors and non-Cal students/free Cal students and BAM/PFA members |
More About UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Founded in 1963, the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is one of the largest university art museums in the country, with more than 16,000 pieces of art and 14,000 films in its collection. The art museum has an impressive collection of abstract expressionist, Ming and Qing Chinese, and miniature Mughal Indian paintings as well as works by old masters, Baroque art and early 20th-century photography. The Pacific Film Archive contains the largest collection of Japanese films outside Japan as well as Soviet cinema and West Coast avant-garde works. BAM / PFA offers discounts for students, seniors and disabled persons.
