This is the “The Head of the Fasting Buddha”, an absolutely spellbinding piece discovered in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from 2-3 CE.
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Since I cannot be arsed to seek Enlightenment (it sounds like too much work), I will have attended a pizza party an hour after I published this note 🍕🧘♂️
From the Sui (581-618 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Dynasties.…
An electron is a particular type of regularity that appears among measurements and observations that we make. It is more pattern than a substance. It is order… Thus we arrive at a strange place. We break things down into smaller and smaller pieces, but then the pieces, when examined, are not the…
A friend used to loan me this lovely book when I was 12 or 13. I loved reading and re-reading it to the point where I remember asking him if he could just gift it to me for my birthday (he declined). And then Life happened and I grew up and I forgot all about it until around 3 years ago, when I sud…
When I was a kid, I’d close my eyes and allow the strange shapes caused by the night lamp and blood flow in my eyelids to put on a small dance and lull me to sleep. Many a time, as I’d relax and drift away, I would suddenly feel this ‘inflation’ and loss of personal boundary and sense of geometry.…
Virupaksha, Guardian King of the West, 17th - 18th century
Clay, polychrome, and stone with wooden base and interior armature
Vajrapani Mahachakra Tapestry, 15th Century
Embroidery / Silk
Lungtok Gyatso - The 9th Dalai Lama, Unknown
Oil on canvas
Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra with Consort Sparshavajra, 19th Century
Pigments on cloth
Gift of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
Avalokiteshwara, 19th-20th Century
Xylograph, ink on paper
A Bodhisattva, 2nd/3rd Century
Gray schist