Join us for the opening reception of the l atest Liu Lobby Gallery exhibition\, Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of Language and Letters.
The exhibition runs from October 7\, 2019 – J anuary 4\, 2020.
Tibetans regard every syllable of their language as sacred\, imbued with the power to liberate beings from suffering. The Tibet an religious corpus is among the vastest of any literatures in history and the sheer reverence with which Tibetans hold their language has been a defi ning characteristic of this civilization on the world’s highest plateau. Th is exhibition\, which takes its title from a 13th century Tibeta n poem\, was curated by doctoral student Patrick Dowd. It features sacred s criptures\, calligraphy\, and numerous other powerful textual objects gathe red from three continents and five countries\, all representative of the ep ic\, beautiful and ongoing story of the Tibetan culture of language and let ters.
The exhibition opening will feature reflections on Tibetan lang uage and its historical and continued importance to global culture.
< strong>Tsengdok Rinpoche was born in northeastern Tibet and receiv ed his monastic education at Ganden Jangtse Monastic College in India. He m oved to Canada in 2005 and has since served as a central cultural and spiri tual leader for the Tibetan population of British Columbia.
P atrick Dowd is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and is a Liu Scholar\, Public Scholar\, and Killam Doctoral S cholar.
Sonam Chusang is an Adjunct Professor of Tib etan language in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Briti sh Columbia.
Co-sponsored by: The Himalaya Program\, Institute for Asia Research\, the Liu Institute for Global Issues\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, and Asian Studies\, UBC.