Buddhas Footprints
Rubin Museum
Went the other night for opening of an exhibition. Love art of Himilayas (museum's focus/collection) but thangkha-d out by 5th floor. Suspect the other visitors, buoyed by wine, went straight to fifth where crowd was thick and thankghas fewer, and never in fact descended to second and third floors.
Anyway. Didn't know a soul which sort of surprised me but also gave me alone-bubble to do exhibit at own pace.
Highlight, besides rather sexualized Ganesh with enormous upright lingam (I'd always imagined him an unsexualized child, a cutie), was the Buddha's Footprints and Handprints focused floor. And this explanation for an aesthetic norm I'd never even noted.
"Perfectly flat...they move, not alternately like the feet of ordinary men, but they both touch the ground at the same time. Nor does one end of the foot touch the ground before the other, but the whole sole touches the ground at the same moment."
From a Thai text describing Buddha's feet.
Walking softly.
C
Went the other night for opening of an exhibition. Love art of Himilayas (museum's focus/collection) but thangkha-d out by 5th floor. Suspect the other visitors, buoyed by wine, went straight to fifth where crowd was thick and thankghas fewer, and never in fact descended to second and third floors.
Anyway. Didn't know a soul which sort of surprised me but also gave me alone-bubble to do exhibit at own pace.
Highlight, besides rather sexualized Ganesh with enormous upright lingam (I'd always imagined him an unsexualized child, a cutie), was the Buddha's Footprints and Handprints focused floor. And this explanation for an aesthetic norm I'd never even noted.
"Perfectly flat...they move, not alternately like the feet of ordinary men, but they both touch the ground at the same time. Nor does one end of the foot touch the ground before the other, but the whole sole touches the ground at the same moment."
From a Thai text describing Buddha's feet.
Walking softly.
C
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