TABO - Re-encountering the oldest original Tibetan monastery
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18 Mar
2025
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Buddhist Aesthetics
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Peter Van Ham
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Image: Total view of southwest and south walls of Tabo’s oldest temple, The Tsugla Khang (Photograph by Peter Van Ham)
Founded in 996 CE, Tabo monastery in Spiti/Himachal Pradesh is the oldest temple complex in the entire Tibetan cultural area to survive largely unchanged in its original state. Its seven sanctuaries contain extraordinary masterpieces of Indo-Tibetan art that offer the rare opportunity to experience and study the full range of Tibetan sculpture and painting styles along with their philosophical backgrounds in one place.
Online Public Lecture on ZOOM
P.S: The Zoom link to join the lecture will be shared 24 hours prior to the talk.
Duration -
March 18, 2025
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
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Peter Van Ham
Frankfurt/Germany-based researcher, author, photographer and exhibition curator Peter van Ham has been exploring West Tibetan monasteries, in particular Tabo, normally off-limits to cameras, by special permission for 35 years. He recently returned to documentit interiors in the world's highest digital resolution. The resulting photographic treasures have just been published by the renowned Hirmer Verlag under the title "TABO. Gods of Light: The Indo-Tibetan Masterpiece–REVISITED". With altogether seventeen internationally published books on Indian cultures and ten guest-curated exhibitions to his credit, Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Geographical Societies, London, and the Explorers Club, New York.