Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
A new course, "The Lives of Holy Objects: Himalayan Buddhist Images as Art and Presence", first invites students to compare objects from museum and art historical perspectives, with field trips to a museum installation, with the living Buddhist community temple's sacred space, and then to launch a cataloguing project and docent training program, producing educational and spiritual materials for the general public and in service to the practitioner community, holding and honoring multiple histories and ways of knowing, sometimes in tension, but enlivening relationships to these beings/objects.
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