Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection


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<p>&#8220;Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection&#8221; includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s. Buddhist ritual objects are displayed in the context of an elaborate private household shrine, a space used for offerings, devotional prayer, rituals, and contemplation. With its flickering candlelight, sonorous chanting, and the subtle smell of incense, the glittering room provides an oasis for peaceful contemplation within the galleries at Mia.</p>
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Talk: Saints and Sinners: Tibetan Painting 1934

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<p>It is sometimes assumed that masterpieces of Buddhist painting were not being produced in the decades leading up to the Tibetan diaspora. This lecture will dispel that misconception. In 1934, the year that Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, and Dali were producing masterpieces in Europe, two Tibetan painters were making their own remarkable works. The first was a still unidentified monk in Eastern Tibet, who produced paintings of each of the renowned eighty-four tantric masters called the mahāsiddhas. The second was Gendun Chopel, considered Tibet’s first modern artist, who in 1934 began creating paintings unlike anything ever seen before in Tibet.</p>
<p>Donald Lopez is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, ranging from translations of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, to histories of the Western encounter with Buddhism, to widely used anthologies of Buddhist texts, to standard reference works for the field of Buddhist Studies. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, at the time, the first scholar of Buddhism to be so honored in eighty-three years. In 2019, he was one of two keynote speakers (together with His Holiness the Dalai Lama) at the commemoration of the six hundredth anniversary of the Tibetan saint Tsong-kha-pa held at Ganden Monastery. His most recent book, published just this month by Yale University Press, is entitled <em>Buddhism: A Journey Through History</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Mia exclusive:</strong> <a href="https://shop.artsmia.org/products/buddhism-a-journey-through-history">Order Lopez&#8217;s new book here</a> before its release to the public in January. Lopez will host a book signing following the lecture; you may pick up your book on-site.</p>


Unknown Tibetan artist, &quot;The Mahasiddha Darikpa,&quot; c 1934. Private Collection.

Mahasiddha Paintings

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<p>Learn more about the <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/tibetan-buddhist-shrine-room-the-alice-s-kandell-collection">Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room</a> with Mia Guides. Guides are at an experiential station at Gallery 255 from November 5, 2024, through January 31, 2025, and available Tuesdays–Sundays, 1–3 p.m.</p>


Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection

September 14, 2024 - September 14, 2025Gallery 256 Free Exhibition

September 14, 2024 - September 14, 2025
Gallery 256
Free Exhibition