Tags: Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan Exhibition

Speakers from Europe and across the United States will present a series of lectures engaging the early history and development of the Buddha image in South Asia. These lectures accompany and will be oriented towards, contextualizing the exhibition of Buddhist sculpture at the Georgia Museum of Art entitled Images of Awakening: The Buddhist Sculptural Heritage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Lectures will include presentations by some of…

Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan, an exhibition of Gandharan Sculpture at the Georgia Museum of Art will open on March 4, 2018.  The exhibition highlighted the Buddhist artistic heritage of ancient Gandhara, a region once heralded as the Crossroads of Asia and now located in present-day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Following the conquest of Alexander the Great during the 4th century BCE, the region…

Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi is a specialist in the Buddhist Art of Gandhara and Professor of Asian Art and Archaeology at Seoul National University. His lecture celebrates the opening of the exhibition of Gandharan Sculpture at the Georgia Museum of Art, Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan and is also the Keynote address for the Symposium to be held on March 23-24 at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, The Buddha…