THF News
THF hosts exhibits on Buddhist stone carvings |
| Posted by Andre (andre) on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:40 PM |
On July 11 THF opened an exhibit entitled "Early Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Ladakh"
by Phuntsog Dorjay (Ph.D). The guests included the Executive Councillour for the Changtang, and the former councillour for public works.
Phuntsog Dorjay has been travelling across
Ladakh and Zanskar to document monumental early sculptures such as the
well-known Mulbek and Khartse standing Maitreya Buddha-s, and he has
also discovered a few previously unknown ones.