Ruth Leon recommends… The Tree and The Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India – Met

The Tree and The Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India – Met

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Here’s an amazing video tour of the Met Museum’s exhibition of Early Buddhist Art in India, 200BCE – 400CE, conducted by John Guy, the Met’s Curator of South and South Eastern Art and Donald Lopez – Distinguished university professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan.

The exhibition brings together art and artefacts from many different sources never before collected, which have been lent to the Met for this exhibition. It concentrates on stupas, the ancient memorial stones of Buddhist history, illustrating the teachings of the Buddha.
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Until I saw this exhibition I had no idea what a stupa was, now I know a little more and want to know more still. I expect you will too.

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