Ten St. Joseph’s University, New York honor students from the Brooklyn Campus visited the Rubin Museum of Art to view a recent exhibition titled “Death Is Not the End.”
Michael Burke, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy; and Peter Lin, Ph.D., associate chair and professor of psychology, accompanied the students as they learned about views on death and afterlife in both Eastern and Western cultures.
The exhibit focused on cross-cultural notions about death and afterlife through Tibetan Buddhist and Christian artwork. Students had the chance to view prints, oil paintings, bone ornaments, thangka paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual items, while taking in a total of 58 objects from 12 centuries.
“The exhibition is organized around three major themes: the Human Condition, or the shared understanding of our mortality in this world; States In-Between, or the concepts of limbo, purgatory, and bardo; and (After)life, focusing on resurrection, ideas of transformation, and heaven,” reports the museum’s website.
Delve into the exhibit through trip photos:
