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Image for Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE
Past Exhibition

Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE

July 21–November 13, 2023
This is the story of the origins of Buddhist art. The religious landscape of ancient India was transformed by the teachings of the Buddha, which in turn inspired art devoted to expressing his message. Sublime imagery adorned the most ancient monume…
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Past Exhibition

Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet

September 19, 2024–January 12, 2025
A mandala is a diagram of the universe—a map of true reality that in Tibet is used to conceptualize a rapid path to enlightenment. This exhibition explores the imagery of the Himalayan Buddhist devotional art through over 100 paintings, sculptures,…
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Past Exhibition

Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion, and Power

March 27, 2021–October 30, 2022
Within the Buddhist traditions of the Himalayas, three bodhisattvas emerge as personifications of Buddhist ideals. Manjushri, who cuts through ignorance and personifies correct knowledge; Avalokiteshvara, a compassionate protector of the devout tha…
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Past Exhibition

Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art

April 8, 2023–July 14, 2024
Drawn largely from The Met’s renowned collection of Japanese art, this exhibition explores the twin themes of anxiety and hope, with a focus on the human stories in and around art and art making. The exhibition begins with sacred images from early…
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Flip Sides: See Korean Art Anew

Through May 31, 2027
Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew invites close looking and offers multiple views of the inside, reverse, or hard-to-see aspects of objects.
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Past Exhibition

Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting

February 3–June 16, 2024
Poetry and painting are deeply intertwined in Chinese culture. Many painters took ancient poetry as their inspiration, either directly illustrating famous verses or attempting to evoke them more subtly in the mind of the viewer. The poetic traditio…
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Past Exhibition

The Great Hall Commission: Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer

October 2, 2023–January 7, 2024
For the second in a series of commissions for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall, interdisciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite (born Columbia, South Carolina, 1986) has transformed the historic space with a site-specific multimedia install…
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The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met

Ongoing
This exhibition examines the language of portraiture from about 1900 to the 1960s through nearly 80 works from The Met collection.
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Buddhism: A New Tradition

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Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism

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Buddhism along the Silk Road

Drawing together objects from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the western reaches of Central Asia—regions connected in the sixth century A.D. through trade, military conquest, and the diffusion of Buddhism—the exhibition illuminates a remarkable moment of artistic exchange.

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Art and Buddhism

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Tibet and India

This exhibition singles out two periods when the Buddhist Tibetan tradition drew from outside influences to develop new vocabularies of form. It includes five loans and eighteen objects drawn from department holdings.

On View February 8–June 8, 2014

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Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection

The Museum displays work drawn from the Burke Collection, the most comprehensive private holding of Japanese art in the West

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Another World Lies Beyond: Chinese Art and the Divine

This exhibition presents a rich display of images of the divine from premodern China, ranging from serene, monochrome Buddhist paintings to raucous, colorful sculptures of popular deities.

On view August 24, 2019–January 5, 2020

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Japanese Mandalas

At the core of Esoteric Buddhism is the idea that one can attain Buddhahood during a single lifetime. To achieve this goal, practitioners meditate upon cosmic diagrams known as mandalas in conjunction with performing hand gestures (mudras) and voicing sacred formulas (mantras). Due to their potency and complexity, initiates must perform these exercises with the guidance of a teacher.

On view June 18–November 29, 2009

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Warriors of the Himalayas