Julia Hirsch is a PhD student in Religious Studies at Stanford University, where she focuses on Buddhist material religion. She earned her MA in the History of Art and Archaeology: Religious Arts of Asia from SOAS University of London and is a Tricycle contributing editor.
Exclusive material from an award-winning documentary about Morup Namgyal, a Ladakhi folksinger and activist working to preserve the region’s music and cultural heritage
Kurt Behrendt, art historian and associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, breaks down the complex world of Himalayan Buddhist art and introduces us to the devotional deities in the center of it.