Met Curator John Guy on the Ritual Use of Vajracharya Crowns

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Published Oct 1, 2019

September 26, 2019

In his illustrated lecture, John Guy, the Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, describes the ritual use of Vajracharya crowns and the windows that their contemporary use provides into the medieval Indian origins of these key objects of Vajrayana Buddhist practice.

The event is in conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition "Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Arts of Nepal." Learn more at https://dharmapunya2019.org.

The lecture is one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity, sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.