Buddhist Art of Myanmar: Birth of the Buddha

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Channel: Asia Society · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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NEW YORK, February 10, 2015 — Donald Stadtner, a guest curator of Asia Society Museum's exhibition Buddhist Art of Myanmar, shares his insights into a late-12th-century sandstone sculpture, Birth of the Buddha, relating how its many intricate details cumulatively add up to a sense that this was a "miraculous birth."
Buddhist Art of Myanmar exhibition website: http://asi.as/AS15BAM

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