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(detail) Nakahara NATENBO (1839-1925), Daruma, 1911, framed leaf, ink on paper

Zen art symposium

In conjunction with the exhibition
Zen Mind, Zen Brush: Japanese ink paintings from the Gitter Yelen collection
 

Saturday 17 June 2006
10am - 5pm
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Program

People's Zen: popularisation of Zen Buddhism in the Edo period
Gary Hickey, lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne

The spiritual dimensions of Zen art
John Stevens, exhibition curator and professor of Buddhist studies, Tohoku Fukushi University

The origins of our Zen collection and its salvage from Katrina
Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen, collectors

Film preview
A Zen life: D.T. Suzuki dir Michael Goldberg 2005
Introduced by Susan Murphy, Diamond Sangha roshi

Cost $80 $70 members includes lunch and exhibition viewing

 

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