Students will engage with a detailed understanding of symbols and motifs in the Himalayan Buddhist tradition, and how they are imbued with meaning when seen in architectural spaces, Iconography, or other material culture. The students will get to appreciate how the present connects to a distant past.

Duration:
3 Day Course in July 2022
Mode:
Virtual Course using Zoom

Skills Gained:

• Ability to understand Symbols and motifs in the Western Himalayas

• Ability to appreciate cognition and how it works

• Understanding context

Recommended For:

Recommended for archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, architectural historians, art historians and just about anyone who wants to know about Himalayan Buddhist traditions.

• Sonali Gupta LL.B., Ph.D. (UCLA) specializes in Archaeology and has worked for nearly a decade in Egypt, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. She is an anthropological archaeologist and has led the first international field school in India under her project “Myth and Reality in the Himalayas.” She has taught at UCLA, the National Museum, New Delhi, and her Institute of which she is the Founding Director, the Himalayan Institute of Cultural & Heritage Studies, situated in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Her core area of research is cultural transmission of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She has various projects in collaboration with Flinders University, Institute of Field Research, University of Delhi and, the Archaeological Survey of India