{"id":1509,"date":"2015-02-26T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?page_id=1509"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:38:07","slug":"exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1509'] = [\n{id: 1784, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/files\/2015\/02\/Embodying-Compassion-media-folder-1.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/files\/2015\/02\/Embodying-Compassion-media-folder-1-e1428351877536.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/exhibition\/embodying-compassion-media-folder-1\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Embodying Compassion media-folder-1<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/exhibition\/embodying-compassion-media-folder-1\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1509\" data-imgid=\"1784\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/files\/2015\/02\/Embodying-Compassion-media-folder-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1784 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/files\/2015\/02\/Embodying-Compassion-media-folder-1-e1428351877536.jpg\" alt=\"Embodying Compassion media-folder-1\" width=\"920\" height=\"595\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embodying\u00a0Compassion\u00a0in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice<\/p>\n<p>The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center<\/p>\n<p>April 23 to June 28, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infovassaredu.ponqpon.com\/?@@aHR0cDovL2luZm8udmFzc2FyLmVkdS9uZXdzL2Fubm91bmNlbWVudHMvMjAxNC0yMDE1LzE1MDQyMy1lbWJvZHlpbmctY29tcGFzc2lvbi5odG1s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first transcultural exhibition in America solely devoted to the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who emerged in India two thousand years ago to become a venerated deity throughout Asia.\u00a0 Like all bodhisattvas, this figure selflessly leads others to enlightenment, but Avalokiteshvara\u2019s special role is to exemplify limitless\u00a0compassion, a fundamental ideal in Mahayana Buddhism. Sometimes appearing as male, sometimes female, the bodhisattva is known as Chenrezig in Tibet, Guanyin in China, and Kannon in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition presents outstanding examples of Indian, Nepalese, Chinese, and Japanese art from prominent institutions such as The Metropolitan\u00a0Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, The Rubin Museum of Art, Asia Society, and The Newark Museum, augmenting objects from the Loeb Art Center\u2019s permanent collection and other sources. The exhibition demonstrates how artistic depictions of Avalokiteshvara inspire his followers through contact with auspicious images, pilgrimage, and daily spiritual practice. Providing a rare opportunity to compare different representations of Avalokiteshvara from many Asian countries, the show also reveals the core Buddhist beliefs that underlie his\/her many manifestations, and why this bodhisattva still plays such a vital role in Asian culture today. Curated by Karen Lucic, professor of art at Vassar College, Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, a smartphone app, a website, and a rich array of related events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1785 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/files\/2015\/02\/Embodying-Compassion-media-folder-2-e1428351846533.jpg\" alt=\"Embodying Compassion media-folder-2\" width=\"920\" height=\"596\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embodying\u00a0Compassion\u00a0in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center April 23 to June 28, 2015 Press Release This is the first transcultural exhibition in America solely devoted to the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who emerged in India two thousand years ago to become a venerated deity throughout Asia.\u00a0 Like all bodhisattvas, this figure selflessly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1509\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}