For the Museum's third-annual lecture on South and Southeast Asian art (March 20, 2011), Robert A. F. Thurman—Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion, Columbia University—presents "Ritual in Contemplation: Text and Tools in Tantric Buddhism."
A related exhibition, Rugs in Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, was on view October 7, 2010, through June 26, 2011.
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi, Jeff Soref Fund of the Stonewall Community Foundation.
