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Saturday mid-day was an outing with Mary and Margie & I, joined by Michelle and Jim & Di, to the Bowers Museum<\/a>, to see a nifty Tibet exhibit<\/a>. Our good friend Helen is working there as a docent, so she gave us a nice tour of the exhibit (after we ate a very tasty if tardily-served lunch from the nice restaurant<\/a> there).<\/p>\nThe art displayed was exquisite, and Helen gave us a great quick intro into Tibetan Buddhism. Anyone with any interest in Tibet or Buddhism ought to see this collection.<\/p>\n
One could argue that, given the large fee paid to the Chinese to get the exhibit to the US, one is actually supporting the oppression of the Tibetan people. On the other hand, the presence of these works increases the visibility and interest in Tibet, so it’s arguably a wash. For the record, though the Dalai Lama has been in Los Angeles while the exhibit was here, he did not, officially, get an opportunity to visit it; when asked what piece he would most like to see, he opined, “I would very much like to see my teacup.” Ironic that I did and he (officially at least) could not.<\/p>\n As an end note to that, at the exit from the exhibit is a guest book, full of the usual gushing praise for the spiffy collection. A number of people had also written in, in various places, “FREE<\/a> TIBET!<\/a>” — after which, in turn, other visitors have written their own retorts (a young Chinese fellow who was right in front of me at the guest book took several minutes to write “It’s already free!” next to every one of those exhortations).<\/p>\n Anyway, a very nice exhibit, which travels from the Bowers to opens at the Bowers Museum to the Houston Museum of Natural Science<\/a> (opening 16 October), thence to the Rubin Museum of Art<\/a> in New York (8 Feb. 2005), and endnig at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco<\/a> (starting 12 June 2005). 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The main thing very obviously lacking from the exhibit, though, was anything that related in any way the modern<\/em> country or anything related to geopolitical or modern historical issues. The Chinese, obviously, are highly sensitive to anything that points out that they’re occupying<\/a> Tibet<\/a>, and so no maps<\/a> are visible to provide context, nor is there any mention (in the exhibit itself) of the current Dalai Lama<\/a> (indeed, the exhibit, a joint effort by four museums in the US, almost got the plug pulled at the last moment when someone actually mentioned that persona non grata<\/i> during discussions with the Chinese).<\/p>\n