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By The Glow Of A Yak-Butter Lamp: Arts Of Mongolia And Tibet
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
6 minutes 53 seconds
14 years ago
By The Glow Of A Yak-Butter Lamp: Arts Of Mongolia And Tibet
The show links two distinct places through the spirituality that permeates daily life in both lands. On view are the spoon-like utensils with which women in Mongolia throw aspersions of milk to the four directions every morning. The thangkas on display often show smoke damage from having been hung in tents lit with yak-butter lamps.
Angles from the IU Art Museum Podcast – Arts and Music
Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.