Thursday, Dec 11, 2003

Korea's Art of Enlightenment

Slide Show/Lecture

  6:45 p.m. doors open
  7 p.m. led meditation
  7:45 p.m. doors open again
  8-9:15 p.m. program

Suggested donation: $5
SFBC Dana program: $2

The San Francisco Buddhist Center/FWBO, in cooperation with the Asian Art Museum, presents this slide show/talk, The Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment (918-1392), spotlighting art from this important medieval period known world-wide for its Buddhist paintings and celadon ceramics. Other art from the period includes illustrated sutras, manuscripts, printing blocks, sculpture, ceramics, and lacquer and metal works.

The speaker is Dr. David Buchanan, a docent for the Asian Art Museum since 1984. Dr. Buchanan attended Georgetown University, and later received his medical degree from the University of Buffalo. He has had an abiding interest in Asian arts and cultures since he first traveled to Korea over 50 years ago. As an active member of the museum's Community Speakers Program, he speaks regularly on a wide variety of topics related to the arts of Asia.

At the SFBC.