The Stories We Tell
With the Imagining the Divine exhibition now open, Robert Bracey discusses the process of conveying messages through labels, and the particularly difficult example of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
Tag: Buddha
Installing ‘Imagining the Divine’ #8: 12th October
Jaś Elsner and Stefanie Lenk are blogging from behind the scenes during the installation of the Ashmolean Museum’s exhibition Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions, opening on October 19th.
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A proper place for images: the Buddha in Thailand
Hugo Shakeshaft, a PhD student in Classics and member of Talking Religion, writes about his latest trip to Thailand and what encounters with the image of the Buddha might tell us about perceptions of this most important of figures.
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Empires of Faith in Edinburgh
Members of the Empires of Faith team travel to Edinburgh to share their research and discuss the ongoing development of the ‘Imagining the Divine’ exhibition.
