2021 Training Workshop: Working with Objects and Manuscripts—Wongaksa Temple Museum, Korea
This workshop is built around the careful study of objects housed in the Wongaksa Temple Museum collection including manuscripts, Buddhist paintings, statues, and dhāraṇī prints. It endeavors to help participants understand how to handle and examine Buddhist artworks and manuscripts. In addition to developing familiarity with the materials themselves, participants will learn how to date manuscripts (based on the quality of paper, for instance), how to date artworks (based on their style, for example), and how to locate dedicatory inscriptions in these sources. Examining these dedicatory inscriptions, participants will begin to tease out their relationships between donors, manufacturers, and artisans. Many of the objects examined at the workshop will be portable objects, including Buddhist dhāraṇī prints.
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