Orientations Magazine
Table Of Contents
Volume 37 Number 2
March 2006

The first four articles in this month's issue are an extension of the
exhibition `Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas' at the Rubin
Museum of Art (RMA), and its accompanying catalogue. Despite their
historical importance in transmitting Tantric Buddhist practices from
India to Tibet, mahasiddhas have often relegated to the sidelines in
Buddhist imagery.

By exploring commonalities in mahasiddha narratives and representations in
Hinduism, Buddhism and Bon, Rob Linrothe, Ulrich von Schroeder and Kathryn
Selig Brown offer a paradigm shift in reading images of these `great
adepts'. Caron Smith introduces some of the significant additions to the
RMA collection since its opening in 2004.

Our other main feature celebrates Wen Fong's 45 years as a scholar,
teacher and collector.
Roderick Whitfield describes what it was like to study with him at
Princeton, while Maxwell Hearn assesses Fong's instrumental role in
building up the collections and the department of Asian art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In anticipation of Asia Week in New York, there are extensive previews of
the major fairs and gallery shows. In the commentary, Julie Segraves
describes how rapid urban development in Beijing has destroyed the dream
of an artists' colony.

`Subject, Object and Agent: Parsing the Syntax of Tibetan Mahasiddha Art'
by Rob Linrothe

`Empowered Masters: Tibetan Wall Paintings of Mahasiddhas at Gyantse'
by Ulrich von Schroeder

`Siddha Stories in Stone: Nath Narratives at Shri Sailam'
by Rob Linrothe

`Great Magicians' in Bon Art'
by Kathryn H. Selig Brown

`Building the Rubin Museum of Art Collection'
by Caron Smith

`Streams and Mountains Without End: The Far Vision of Wen Fong'
by Roderick Whitfield

`Wen C. Fong and Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum'
by Maxwell K. Hearn

A `Padmasambhava Palace' in Southern Brazil

`An Oasis of Buddhist Sacred Art, Scholarship, Meditation and Service in
Remote India'
by Moke Mokotoff

`Study Day Report'
by Inne Broos

The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht

Gallery News

The Arts of Pacific Asia Show in New York

The International Asian Art Fair

Announcements

`Commentary: Artists and Authorities Clash: Open Space vs Art Space in
Beijing'
by Julie M. Segraves

A detailed summary of each article with pictures is posted at
www.orientations.com.hk/thisiss.htm
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