Hello, everyone! I thought I’d add my experience with the Rubin Museum.
I visited the Rubin Museum last Friday with the main interest into the upper floor exhibitions regarding the Buddha. Titled, “The Second Buddha” I had heard about this exhibit from the advertisements found across the city and upon my visit and making my way to the floor it was being held I was overcome with a sense of relief. Relief found within meditative states, especially when ascending via stairs to the floor, mostly from how quiet the Museum was in particular. With little to no visitors in the vicinity, it felt like a soul searching journey and upon viewing the many depictions of the Buddha surrounding and looking at me. It was if I was making that first step to reaching an inner peace within my inner self, absolving all stress or pain in life. All carefully detailed in a mystic sense, contrasting the traditional Greek proper anatomical artwork found in Europe all of which from what I saw was capturing what the artist exhibited as their own Nirvana. Layered within their depictions of the Buddha, “the enlightened one”.
We’ll talk in class, perhaps, about Padmasambhava, the “second Buddha” of that exhibition. Only Tibetans speak of a “second Buddha” in this way.
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