October 30, 2019

Arhats and the Figural Imagination of Chinese Buddhist Art

Arhats and the Figural Imagination of Chinese Buddhist Art

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Date(s) - Wednesday, October 30, 2019
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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Lecture by Curator Phillip E. Bloom. Arhats are semi-human, semi-divine monks widely worshipped in East Asia, and are an important subject in Chinese Buddhist paintings of the Song dynasty (960–1279) onward. For more info: https://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/Events/Lectures