How Vajr膩c膩ryas become Bodhisattvas
Date of Lecture: September 26, 2019
About the Speaker: John Guy is the Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator of the Met's recent exhibition "Crowns of the Vajra Masters: Ritual Art of Nepal."
About the Lecture: In his illustrated lecture, John Guy describes the ritual use of Vajracharya crowns and the windows that their contemporary use provides into the medieval Indian origins of these key objects of Vajrayana Buddhist practice.
The lecture is in conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition "." It is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity.