Uranchimeg Tsultem: "Buddhist Controversies in Mongolian Art, 1900–1924"

Date
Thursday November 3rd 2011, 7:30PM
Event Sponsor
Center for East Asian Studies, Silk Road Foundation
Location
Building 380, Room 380F, Main Quad
Uranchimeg Tsultem: "Buddhist Controversies in Mongolian Art, 1900–1924"

Abstract:

Tsultem’s talk will focus on two paintings from Mongolia’s preeminent monastery Ikh Khuree that are attributed to a court painter B. Sharav.  Tsultem will discuss how the art of Ikh Khuree shrewdly veiled Buddhist teachings in the scenes of secular life of Mongolian nomads, and how Buddhist reflections about desire, pain, and redemption are covertly expressed in visual culture during the era of political instability.

Bio:

Uranchimeg Tsultem, a native of Mongolia and a PhD candidate in the History of Art department at the University of California, Berkeley, has gained a new understanding of Mongolian spiritual life. She is also an accomplished art historian, who is presently writing a dissertation on Zanabazar.