Intertwined Worlds
In conjunction with the 10th Annual Schoenberg Symposium of the same theme, Intertwined Worlds explores pre-modern religious traditions of South and Southeast Asia including Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism as well as their influence, exchange, and integration with neighboring geographies and peoples (including their reception within Islamic and Sikh communities). It examines the shared reservoirs of narrative, artistic, and ritual practices in different historical and regional contexts. Because of the complexities of language, culture, and religion within South and Southeast Asian communities, there is strong material, iconographic, and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries.This exhibition highlights local and pan-geographic expressions of religious confluence by exploring technologies and traditions of manuscript culture, artistic production, shared iconographies, and textualities from the pre-modern world.