*Note: This event does not take place in New York but in Bloomington, Indiana.
BloomingtonKatmandu Exhibit - May 2011
Place: TMBCC, Bloomington, Indiana
The 14th Dalai Lama, the self described "simple Buddhist monk" states that being forced to be a refugee made him into a world citizen. Some of us never leave the place we are born in, some of us are forced to leave and to find a new home, some of us leave by choice for a far away place, and some of us are permanent postmodern cultural nomads. BloomingtonKatmandu reflects the impermanency and the mobility of the 21st century’s ever changing geographical, emotional and physical borders that we humans cross daily. The local, international, exilic and nomadic artists are asked to choose and-or create works of art that best represent the place, the person, and-or the object that they call “home”.
The exhibition will take place on May 28th, 2011 at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana. When the founder of the TMBCC, Thubten Jigme Norbu--the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama--had the dream to build an interfaith center that all religions could call home, people from many faiths donated land, money, building supplies, and labor. In 1979, the Cultural Building was constructed by Mennonites, Conservative and Liberal Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In 2003, the Dalai Lama dedicated the Kumbum Chamtse Ling as an Interfaith Temple to promotes interfaith peace and harmony. In his most recent visit in May 2010, the Dalai Lama asked that the center be used as a hub for artistic and cultural events for people from all backgrounds. Hence TMBCC strives to be a temple not just for the religiously inclined, but also a temple for the mind of the intellectually and artistically inclined -- spirituals, seculars, pagans, atheists and agnostics alike.
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