Sculptural Images of the Buddhist Collection at the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities: to the issue of ethnic specificity
https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2016-24-2-81-88
Abstract
The article provides an overview of Buddhist sculpture in the museum collection of the KIH of the RAS. The object of the study is the traditional art in the form of devotional articles. The author considers the sculptural images and reveals the structure, essence and ethnic peculiarities of works of Buddhist art created in Kalmykia. The collection of Buddhist sculpture compiled since the establishment of the KIH Museum (RAS) in 2000 for the districts of the republic should be subject to further studies that would combine methods of museology, ethnic culturology, etc. The pieces of art in the Buddhist collection of the KIH Museum (RAS) are part of the traditional culture of the Kalmyks. The religious sculptures gathered in the early 21st century make a section in the permanent exhibition of the Zaya Pandita Museum of Traditional Culture. Being the cultural heritage of the nomads in terms of the peculiar way they reproduced the Buddhist iconographic canon, the exhibit items represent the ethnic tradition that can be identified in the artistic image.
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Batyreva S.G. Sculptural Images of the Buddhist Collection at the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities: to the issue of ethnic specificity. Oriental Studies. 2016;9(2):81-88. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2075-7794-2016-24-2-81-88
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