KOREAN ZEN

Sun Gak

Buddhanara Temple

Learn a range of meditation techniques from different Buddhist traditions: Mahayana (including Zen), Vajrayana, and Theravada. This seven-week series offers new ways of understanding the exhibition Reflections of the Buddha by introducing an aspect of Buddhism. A practitioner from a Buddhist temple in the St. Louis Metropolitan area will lead each session, giving instruction and time for meditation.

Admission is free. Reservations are required for any session due to limited space. RSVP at meditations@pulitzerarts.org.

October 1         Korean Zen, Buddhanara Temple
October 8         Soto Zen, Inside Dharma/Shinzo Sangha
October 15       Mahayana, Fo Guang Shan St. Louis Buddhist Center
October 22       Vajrayana, Do Ngak Choling
October 29       Dynamic Insight Meditation/Theravada, Thai Buddhist Temple
November 5      Japanese Zen, Missouri Zen Center
November 12    Chan (Chinese Zen), Mid-America Buddhist Association

Left Hand of a Colossal Buddha Amitabha (Amida Nyorai), c. 1202
Japan, Kamakura period, 1185–1333
Attributed to Kaikei, active c. 1183–1236
Japanese cypress (hinoki) wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding
Probably from an Amida triad originally at the Shin-Daibutsu-ji Temple in Iga, Mie Prefecture
10 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 12 in.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt, 1931.9
Photograph by Sam Fentress