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Create a Lotus Lantern for the Lotus Lantern Festival
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Students will: 1.) Learn that Buddhism is a religion founded by an enlightened young Indian prince who became the Buddha. 2.) Learn how the Buddha’s birthday, a national holiday, is celebrated in Korea. 3.) Discuss how the lotus flower is symbol of purity and wisdom. 3.) Construct a lotus blossom lantern. Downloads include visual guides and instructions, a slide show activity, and stencil.

Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/create-a-lotus-lantern-for-the-lotus-l...
Golden Treasures: The Royal Tombs of Silla
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A discussion of the royal tombs of the Old Silla kingdom (BCE 57-668 CE) and the "hoards of precious ornaments buried within," including jewelry and crowns and ornaments of pure gold. With 6 related objects.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sila/hd_sila.htm
How to Identify a Buddha
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
"The earliest surviving representations of the Buddha date from hundreds of years after his death, so they are not portraits in the usual sense. Buddha images vary greatly from place to place and period to period, but they almost always show these conventional features..." Downloads includes student handouts and a teacher packet on Hindu Buddhist Art. See also An Introduction to Buddhism.

Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/how-to-identify-a-buddha/
Korean Buddhist Sculpture (5th–9th century)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A discussion of Buddhism's introduction to the Korean peninsula in 372 CE and its influence on artistic developments during the Three Kingdoms period (BCE 57 - 668 CE), specifically in architecture and sculpture.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kobs/hd_kobs.htm
Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the ancient world, the Korean kingdom of Silla (57 B.C.–A.D. 935) was renowned as a country of gold. Through over 100 spectacular objects created between A.D. 400 and 800—Silla's seminal period—the landmark exhibition Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom presents the remarkable artistic achievements of a small kingdom that rose to prominence, embraced cosmopolitanism, and eventually gained control over much of the Korean peninsula. The exhibition is the first in the West to focus exclusively on the arts of Silla. Among the highlights are exquisite regalia discovered in the tombs of royalty and the elite; unique treasures made in places between China and the Mediterranean and preserved in Korea; and Buddhist icons and reliquaries reinterpreting pan-Asian styles with native aesthetics.

Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/koreas-golden-kingdom
The Spread of Buddhism Across Asia
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Understand, through the analysis of artifacts and maps, how Buddhism changed as it spread across Asia and came to reflect the countries that embraced it. Downloads include a slideshow and handout on Buddhist artifacts and a lesson plan.

Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/the-spread-of-buddhism-across-asia/
Three Kingdoms, 57 B.C.-668 A.D.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
"From the first century B.C. until the 7th century, Korea was divided into three states." A brief one-paragraph overview, along with images of three objects representative of the period.

Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/korea-three-kingdoms.cfm.html
Timeline of Art History: Korea, 1–500 A.D.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"With the destruction of the Han Chinese military commandery Lelang in 313 A.D., and the division of the peninsula among the three kingdoms of Koguryô (in the north), Paekche (in the southwest), and Silla (in the southeast), along with the small confederation of city-states known as the Kaya Federation (in the region between Paekche and Silla), a critical new era in Korean history dawns." With a period overview, list of key events, and 6 related artworks. Also has links to additional information about the royal tombs of the Silla kingdom (BCE 57-668 CE), an abridged list of rulers in Korea, and timelines of China and Japan during this time.

Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/?period=05®ion=eak
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