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ShareBangalore: A three-day exhibition at the Chitrakala Parishath offers a glimpse of the half-century of exile of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan refugees. The exhibition, organised to express their gratitude to the Indian government and people, was inaugurated on Sunday by MLA Narendra Babu.
Thangka paintings and woven carpets, handicrafts, photographs, organic food and ancient medicines are on display. A film festival will showcase some of the finest films and documentaries on the subject: Kundan, Tibet: Murder in the Snow, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion and The Unwinking Gaze.
Visitors can witness cultural performances, and buy books and handicrafts that offer an experience of Tibet. They can also listen to the chantings of Buddhist monks. The exhibition will offer a rare chance to see the creation and destruction of the mandala by monks of the Gyudmed Tantric monastery -- nearly 150 monks from this 15th century monastery in Lhasa fled to India in 1959. The creation of the mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist ritual tradition, involving the painstaking creation of a large image in coloured sand granules, representing Buddhism themes. This is then ritually destroyed symbolising transience.
