Melikians Attend Toledo Opening
The traveling exhibition, “Ethiopia at the Crossroads,” has made its way to the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. The Toledo Museum of Art is the third venue for the exhibition and the Melikians were in attendance last evening, August 15, 2024, for the opening. The Melikians have loaned
Object of the Month – August
August’s Object of the Month is from Tibet. This gilt and painted bronze Vajra (鎏金嵌寳金剛杵) is cast with the heads of ferocious bodhisattva. The phurba is a three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail-like ritual implement deeply rooted in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bön traditions. Its primary association is with the meditational