Additions & Updates

I did a quick re-working of the main Sakya Outline Page on the HAR website. To this I added at the bottom, as you already saw, the Sakya Protectors Outline. Linked to that is a new outline page for Panjarnata Mahakala. I still have more work to do on this and I am not sure if I remembered the Five Lineages of Panjaranata accurately. I have a feeling that the Mal Lotsawa and the Rinchen Zangpo lineages are the same which means that I have forgotten one. I can look it up when I am back in New York next week.

Also new to the Sakya Outline Page is the Monasteries & Branch Schools outline . This new page will become more meaningful and develop as I upload all of the images from my various trips to Tibet and hopefully the images that the students also took at the various locations.

Back To New York

After a week on the road visiting art collections in Chicago and Ann Arbor I'm finally heading back to New York in a few hours. Some of the art in these out of the way museums is extremely good, some peices are of historical importance and others are iconographically rare.

Chicago

I'm here in Chicago to look at art. The first stop is the Chicago Art Institute where they have a amll but very good collection of art. Their strength is in sculpture but they also have some very good Tibetan and Nepalese paintings. The second place of interest is the Field Museum where they have a very large collection of art, mostly Chinese Himalayan and Mongolian art, paintings, sculpture, book covers, and ritual objects.

First Post

Well, here we are again. Different venue but still here. If you know what I mean. This web blog is intended to be a venue to say exactly how I feel about a number of different topics especially about Buddhism and Himalayan art.