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The Dalai Lama to Visit Oglethorpe University
Museum of Art
What: A Private Reception with the Dalai Lama
When: Tuesday Morning, May 12, 1998
Where: Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Third
Floor, Weltner Library. 4484 Peachtree Road, NE.
Atlanta, Georgia 30319
Details: The U.S. State Department has only recently
cleared this event for media coverage. The Museum will open at
7:00 a.m. for media. No media admitted after 7:45 a.m. No
tripods. No flash photography. The event will conclude by 10 a.m.
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art (OUMA) is currently showing
the special return limited engagement of "The Mystical Arts of
Tibet: Featuring Personal Sacred Objects of the Dalai Lama." The
exhibition will run from Sunday, April 5 through Sunday, June 7,
1998 in honor of the Atlanta visit of the Dalai Lama in May.
The exhibition will feature 30 personal items belonging to the
Dalai Lama. Items on display will include tangka scroll paintings, a
mantra rosary, a silver vase with auspicious designs and an offering
vessel among others. Other items are on loan from the surviving
archives of Drepung Loseling Monastery in India, where Tibetan monks
fled during the 1959 Chinese invasion. Most of the items in this
latter collection date from the 11th to the 15th centuries -- the
time of Drepung’s founding.
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual and
temporal leader of 6 million Tibetan people. He was born Lhamo
Dhondup on July 6, 1935 in a small village called Takster in
northeastern Tibet. Born to a peasant family, he was recognized at
the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the
reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama, and thus an
incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion.
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