Friday, 22 November 2024
Friday, 22 November 2024
Indian Museum, Calcutta celebrates its 209th Foundation Day on February 2.
Celebration is set to begin with an exhibition on the Buddha titled Bodhi Yatra: Revisiting Buddhist Ways to Nirvana. The exhibition will be inaugurated on February 2 and will continue till March 1.
Museum will showcase a selection of Buddhist artefacts, spanning across the development of the Aniconic worship of the Buddha to the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools of philosophies, to trace the journey and evolution of Buddhist ways to attain enlightenment.
National Monuments Authority Chairman Kishor Kumar Basa and Indian Museum Director Arijit Dutta Choudhury during celebrations.
Visitors look at idols of Buddhist deities during 'Bodhi Yatra' exhibition. The exhibition celebrates and showcases the growth, spread and cultural synthesis of Buddhist ideologies in India and its further continuity across Asia, as per media reports.
School children visit 'Bodhi Yatra' exhibition. The title Bodhi Yatra implies the different roads to salvation through the philosophies of Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana.
School children perform during celebrations.
Underprivileged children performed an act of mime art at the celebrations.
