The Atlas of Maritime Buddhism is a cutting-edge exhibition that traces the religion’s development along the Maritime route from India across Asia, providing an amazing visual immersion into major historic Buddhist sites. The integration of virtual scenography, 3D stereoscopic visualizations, and physical sculptures, generously loaned from Hong Kong collections, defines the new approach to museology presented by the Atlas of Maritime Buddhism. It gives visitors an intense visual and auditory experience of Buddhism in its richly varied forms, as it was developed throughout Southeast Asia, and in China and Japan. The Atlas of Maritime Buddhism is a crucial reminder of the continued importance of the Silk Road, which stimulated economic, social, and cultural development across Asia, today revived in the Belt and Road initiative. Professor Jeffrey Shaw, Chair Professor of Media Art at CityU, and Professor Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, are responsible for the original concept of the exhibition, and were assisted by a team of scholars in realizing this ambitious project, initially, at the Fo Guang Shan Museum of Buddhism in Taiwan and, now at City University of Hong Kong.
Curator
Isabelle Frank is the Director of the CityU Exhibition Gallery. She received a doctorate in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in art and archaeology from Princeton University. She taught at Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts before moving to academic administration, becoming associate dean for academic affair at The New School, and then dean at Fordham University’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies.
Admission: HKD$100 for members, HKD$150 for guests/non-members
Booking: Please email membership@royalasiaticsociety.org.hk in advance to register your attendance.
Preregistration is required in order to receive Q code access to City U via Festival Walk, MTR entrance; You will not be allowed in without preregistration