Team L&M A film Monasteries of Rinchen Zangpo that provides the first comprehensive view of, covering the monasteries of Tibet, Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur, is being screened at India Habitat Centre (IHC), New Delhi on August 20 at 6pm. The film screening is a part of IHC series Glimpses of Culture. Produced for Doordarshan by […]Read More
Benoy K Behl The early river valley civilisation in the Indian subcontinent, from the fourth millennium BCE, was based on a cooperative culture. While there was a sophisticated urban ethos and advanced technology for its time, archaeological evidence has revealed that there was no developed system of kingship or military. The art of the Indus […]Read More
Team L&M In about 850 AD, a Chola chieftain named Vijayalaya took control of Thanjavur and ushered in an era of unsurpassed prosperity and grandeur in Tamil Nadu. The most beautiful temples of South India were made under the rule of the Cholas. At Narthamalai, located on top of a hill, amidst the great beauty […]Read More
Team L&M Tucked away between lush green hills of North East India, the bejewelled; and Manipur has preserved many jewels of the ancient culture of India. The people of Manipur had a unique tradition of worship through the ecstasy of dance. Since they believed that they were the descendants of celestial musicians, Gandharvas, they sought communion […]Read More
Benoy K Behl About 3,500 years ago, deities were created in Vedic Indian thought. These embodied the world of nature around us and provided us a deep connection to the forces which control our existence. The later deities of the Upanishadic period and the Puranas are the personifications of concepts and qualities. These qualities are […]Read More
Benoy K Behl About 3,500 years ago, deities were created in Vedic Indian thought. These embodied the world of nature around us and provided us a deep connection to the forces which control our existence. The later deities of the Upanishadic period and the Puranas are the personifications of concepts and qualities. These qualities are […]Read More
Benoy K Behl Do you know that the largest rock-cut reliefs of Lord Shiva are in Tripura? How many know that some of the earliest Buddhist Vajrayana depictions are found in a Pala period stupa in Tripura? Or that Tripura is one of the great centers of the worship of Durga? Tripura is a land […]Read More
Team L&M This Saturday, October 16 at 6pm, Art Historian, Film-maker & Photographer Benoy K Behl is presenting an online talk and showcase his film Indian Roots of Tibetan Buddhism. Directed and narrated by Behl, and produced for the Union Ministry of External Affairs, the film is shot extensively in Tibet, Ladakh, Spiti, Arunachal Pradesh, […]Read More
Team L&M In the 4th century, in the region of Kashmir, Asanga and Vasubandhu developed the Yogachara school of Buddhism, which was to travel far and wide. In the 8th century, Guru Padmasambhava who was teaching in Kashmir, took a highly developed form of this Buddhism and its sacred dance to Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti, Kinnaur, Western […]Read More
Benoy K Behl Is it not wonderful that about half the patrons of monuments of ancient India were women? It is housewives, nuns, tailors and others who were responsible for the glorious architectural and artistic heritage which we have from early times! A total of 631 donation inscriptions survive at the Great Stupa at Sanchi. […]Read More
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