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BDG Postcard #37: December 2024

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Risk Assessment, Documentation, and Damage Prevention of Buddhist Material Culture – with Treasury Caretaker Training

Conservator Ann Shaftel and Patricia Smithen were recently in Nepal to give a seminar on paubha conservation, including risk assessing, evaluating, and preserving traditional Nepalese art
Sculpting Happiness: An Interview with Carver Takuo Hasegawa of Shorin-ji Temple, Spain. Part Two

In this two-part interview, Belén Boville speaks to a unique artist of wood Buddhist sculpture creating wonders in Spain
Sculpting Happiness: An Interview with Carver Takuo Hasegawa of Shorin-ji Temple, Spain. Part One

In this two-part interview, Belén Boville speaks to a unique artist of wood Buddhist sculpture creating wonders in Spain
Buddhist Art Preservation Weekend to be held on 19–22 July at New York’s Rubin Museum

A unique event for women in New York with authoritative preservation organization Treasure Caretaker
Dunhuang Academy’s deputy head Zhang Xiaogang on the mission of the Institute of Archaeology

The “Mona Lisa of the East” at the Mogao Grottoes is one of many priceless inspirations for an ambitious, 30-year-long initiative to save the caves
“Being and Time” – Ma Liping’s New Yungang Photography Exhibition

A striking exhibit of Yungang photography is running from 20 January to 29 February at Shenzhen’s Dongguang Tang Art Museum
A Divine Encounter: My Quest for Green Tara

On her pilgrimage to Ladakh, Rebecca Wong visited the Alchi monastic complex, and investigated a special mural of Green Tara in one of the monasteries
“Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE”

An landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York will tell the story of Buddhist art’s origins