By The Glow Of A Yak-Butter Lamp: Arts Of Mongolia And Tibet
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
English - November 16, 2010 23:00 - 6 minutes - 3.15 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVisual Arts Arts Education Courses Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The show links two distinct places through the spirituality that permeates daily life in both lands. On view are the spoon-like utensils with which women in Mongolia throw aspersions of milk to the four directions every morning. The thangkas on display often show smoke damage from having been hung in tents lit with yak-butter lamps.