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| Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Buddhism—and the art it inspired—helped shape the cultures of Asia. Today, its extraordinary art is a source of beauty and contemplation for audiences across the world.Encountering the Buddha brings together more than two hundred artworks, spanning two millennia, to explore Asia’s rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse schools that arose from the Buddha’s teachings.Throughout the exhibition and the website, we explore how Buddhist artworks are endowed with sacred power. We ask, why were they created? How did Buddhists engage with them? And how do Buddhist understandings of such objects differ from those of art museums?
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/encountering-the-buddha-art-and-prac... | |
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| Explore Korea: A Visit to Grandfather's House [PDF] |
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| Seattle Art Museum
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"The unit theme of Explore Korea: A Visit to Grandfather's House links traditional objects from Korean households to their original setting within a certain area of the house and to their purpose in this culture." With seven classroom activities for K-5 levels.
Go to Museum Resource: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.553.3579&rep=rep1&type... | |
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| Fire Over Earth: Ceramics from the Collection of the Asia Society |
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| Asia Society
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Explores the interrelationships between the ceramic traditions of China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia in terms of techniques, styles and the roles played by ceramics in different contexts. Features seven objects with accompanying text and a glossary.
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| Ganggangsullae: Korean Dance Music of the Full Moon |
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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In this lesson, students will develop an understanding of the mode of Namdo Korean folksongs, as well as the call-and-response musical form. To illustrate these features, this lesson focuses on the 5,000 year-old Korean dance known as "Ganggangsullae" ("Kang-Kang-Soo-Woo-Nae"). This dance is typically performed by women under the full moon, and it incorporates singing, dancing, and playing. Within the cultural unit are various activities such as drawing, exercising melodic skills, singing the song form, writing lyrics, and dancing in a circle.
Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/ganggangsullae-korean-dance-full-moon/traditonal-folk/m... | |
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| Golden Treasures: The Royal Tombs of Silla |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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.
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| Goryeo Celadon |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Discusses the development of celadon ceramic production during the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392). With 11 related objects. The term celadon is thought to derive from the name of the hero in a seventeenth-century French pastoral comedy. The color of the character Céladon’s robe evoked, in the minds of Europeans, the distinctive green-glazed ceramics from China, where celadon originated. Some scholars object to such an arbitrary and romanticized Western nomenclature. Yet the ambiguity of the term celadon effectively captures the myriad hues of greens and blues of this ceramic type. During the nearly five centuries of the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), celadon constituted the main type of ceramics produced on the Korean peninsula.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cela/hd_cela.htm | |
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| Goryeo Dynasty: Korea’s Age of Enlightenment [PDF] |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Few people are aware that the name Korea is derived from the name of the Goryeo (previously tranliterated as Koryo) dynasty. It was during this period (918–1392) that Korea became known to the world outside East Asia. This packet provides an overview of aspects of Goryeo society and Goryeo Buddhism as depicted in the arts of the period.
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