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The Female Buddha: Women of Enlighenment in
Tibetan Mysticism; Exhibition runs June 12 - August 24, 2003, at
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
Atlanta – The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art is proud to
announce the return of The Female Buddha: Women of Enlightenment in
Tibetan Mysticism, first presented in Fall, 2002, and back by
popular demand. The exhibition, which re-opens on June 12 and runs
though August 24, 2003, features around 70 tangkas -- masterpieces
of Tibetan painting -- and a dozen bronze and wood figures on loan
from the Rubin Collection. The Rubin Collection is one of the most
extensive collections of Himalayan art in the United States, and is
the core of the Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) now being created by
Donald Rubin, a 1956 alumnus of Oglethorpe University, with his wife
and co-collector Shelley Rubin. The Museum will open in March, 2004,
in New York City.
Before their appearance at Oglethorpe last
September, these works had never been made public, nor had an
exhibit on this theme ever been presented in the United States. Its
popularity makes evident not only the beauty and power of Himalayan
art, but the importance of its ideas to museum visitors today.
Concurrent with the exhibit, related programming, including a
lecture series, will guide viewers in their exploration of these
exquisite works of art and the living tradition to which they
belong.
A full color catalogue of the exhibit entitled
Female Buddhas: Women of Enlightenment in Tibetan Mystical Art,
written by exhibition curator Glenn H. Mullin (with Jeff J. Watt),
was published by Clear Light Publishers and is available at the
Oglethorpe Museum and at local bookstores. Mr. Mullin is a
world-renowned scholar of Tibetan culture, and the author of more
than 21 books on Buddhist topics. Interviews with Donald Rubin and
Mr. Mullin are being scheduled. To inquire about an interview or for
more information, please contact Ryan Urcia, Workhouse Publicity, at
212. 334. 8006, or via email urcia@workhousepr.com
Mr. Mullin lived for many years in Dharamsala,
India, completing rigorous training in Buddhist philosophy at the
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives and Tsennyi Labtra Monastery.
Mr. Mullin has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the U.S.,
Canada, Europe and the Far East; worked as a field specialist on
several Tibet-related films; co-produced five audio recordings of
Tibetan sacred music, and has appeared many times on the Discovery
Channel, PBS and other stations. He was instrumental in organizing
the first performance tours of Tibetan monks in the U.S. and the
around the world, as well as the exhibit Mystical Arts of Tibet,
which toured the nation from 1995 to 2001.
The Oglethorpe
University Museum of Art (OUMA) creates and sponsors its own
exhibits, featuring art which is historical and representational in
form, national and international in origin, and mythological and
spiritual in content. Now celebrating the Year of Asia, the Museum
is located on the third floor of the Philip Weltner Library at the
University. For more information about OUMA, please visit their
website at
http://museum.oglethorpe.edu.
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