The Buddha Image: Out of Uddiyana ~ an exhibition

[riverside]

Sept 16 - Oct 20, 2010
Tibet House
22 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011
http://www.tibethouse.us/art-gallery/up ... xhibitions

The 'Out of Uddiyana' exhibition features a wide range of very early Buddha imagery and related artworks, including Gandharan sculptural masterpieces...The exhibit shows how early Buddha images and a distinctive style evolved “out of Uddiyana”­–an area nowadays known as Swat, in present-day northern Pakistan–and was transmitted along the Silk Route ... Uddiyana/Swat is also the place where the tantric Master, Padmasambhava ... was born and from where he helped establish “Vajrayana” Buddhism in Tibet