Diary - A Matter of Realignment EXHIBITION: WORKS BY:

The Cultural Politics of Buddhist Relics EXHIBITION: Travelling Relics: Spreading the Word of the Buddha CURATED BY: Himanshu Prabha Ray, with the Support of Gitanjali Surendran 22 February to 7 March 2024 Using maps, archaeological photographs of Buddhist sites, as well as images of historic events, the exhibition narrated the Central to the exhibition was the question: ‘How did Buddhism story fr. [...] The exhibition shared a journey of the ‘Buddhist aesthetics’, and in the absence of a shastric text, visual and the performative, ending with the emergence of a visual sources are the only sources to provide a lexicon of freestanding Buddha image which becomes a religious icon Buddhist art. [...] Jyotindra Jain drew attention sources, contemplating the creation of a pedagogical system to how the serpent or naga depictions and myths were a to achieve a particular Buddhist aesthetic and the realisation feature across sramana traditions, possessing antecedents of a global dimension of Buddhism in the study of the subject. [...] In In the last session, ‘Interactions Renewed’, Anita Sengupta the next presentation, Shashibala outlined Atisha’s journey argued that the study of ‘diasporas’ needs to be based on the through Nepal and Tibet, where he disseminated the texts and interaction between communities and the process of exchange ideas of Dharmakirti. [...] While the essence of the allegorical title—‘Under the Mango Tree’—originates With the overhead stage light discerningly focussed on him, out of a specific context suggestive of an urgent need for Castelino took the listeners through all the nuances of his succour by the millions who faced prolonged hardship during syncretical approach even when the songs depicted stories the pandemic when they wer.