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The Bodhisattva Cult and a Newly Rediscovered Masterpiece of Pala Buddhist Art

This Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia presents one of the most important Pala-dynasty sculptures to enter a Western collection in the past century, and locates it in the wider setting of Vajrayana Bodhisattva cults of medieval eastern India.
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This Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia presents one of the most important Pala-dynasty sculptures to enter a Western collection in the past century, and locates it in the wider setting of Vajrayana Bodhisattva cults of medieval eastern India.

Featuring:

John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia, The Met

Recorded March 16, 2018