Catalog Available

Exhibition Catalog awarded 2003 Book of the Year in the Religion category by ForeWord Magazine

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White Tara Sand Mandala,
built by Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery during the exhibition
 
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October 2002 Review
July 2003 Review
 


 


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The Female Buddha:
Women of Enlightenment in
Tibetan Mysticism

September 15, 2002 through February 16, 2003
and
June 12 through August 24, 2003

OUMA launched the Year of Asia, a year of celebration of the art and culture of Asia, with this magnificent exhibition, which brought together a selection of works from the collection of Donald Rubin and Shelley Rubin.

The Rubin Collection in its entirety is thought to be the largest collection of Tibetan art outside of Tibet. Donald Rubin, a 1956 Oglethorpe University Alumnus, and his wife Shelley, had never before made these works available for exhibition. Nor has an exhibition with this thematic focus ever been presented in the United States. Atlantans and world visitors were able to explore more fully the ancient and ongoing traditions of "The Land Above the Clouds" through related programming, including the construction of a Female Buddha Sita Tara Sand Mandala by Tibetan monks, and an outstanding exhibition lecture series.

The full color exhibition catalog was written by exhibition curator Glenn H. Mullin, world renowned scholar of Tibetan culture and student of the Dalai Lama.

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