2 hours of chanting in a Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room for meditation and concentration

Welcome to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. Since it first opened, this installation has been our visitors’ favorite immersive art experience, an oasis for peaceful reflection.

Now the Shrine Room is accessible via virtual visits, so it can continue to be a refuge in times of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty.

This space represents an affluent Tibetan Buddhist household shrine. Traditionally practitioners would use such places to contemplate their aspirations, recall advice from religious teachers, and worship deities that embody enlightened qualities. They would also do daily rituals, meaningful offerings, ask for help removing mental and physical obstacles on their paths, and chant. Chanting is a method of reciting prayers and mantras as part of daily or special ritual practices. Together with bells and other ritual music, these sounds are offerings to deities and religious teachers.

To learn more about the objects in this installation visit our Interactive Shrine Room: http://shrineroom.rma2.org/

Or listen to the Shrine Room audio tour:
https://rubinmuseum.org/shrineroom-au...
https://rubinmuseum.org/shrineroom

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The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is supported by Bob and Lois Baylis, Matt and Ann Nimetz, and our generous donors.

The Rubin Museum of Art acknowledges the lenders to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: Eugene "Luke” Pollock Collection; Long-term loan from the Nyingjei Lam Collection; Alice Kandell; Ven. Aye Tulku and Jane Werner-Aye; Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art; Sylvie Sauveniere; Collection of the Newark Museum, Purchase 1920; Collection of the Newark Museum, Bequest of Elizabeth P. Martin, 1976.

Chanting by Buddhist monks of Maitri Vihar at Swayambhu in Kathmandu, Nepal, and nuns of Tibetan Nuns Project, India.

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About the Rubin Museum

The Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, New York City, explores and celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of Himalayan art, ideas, and culture across history and into the present. With its globally renowned collection, largely centered around the Tibetan Plateau, the Rubin fosters understanding and appreciation of this region by relating its art and ideas to our shared human experience today. Inspired by the philosophical traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism and aligned with ongoing research into learning, behavior, and the brain, the Rubin offers innovative exhibitions and programs that examine provocative ideas across the arts and explore the mind. Through this work, the Museum serves as a space for reflection and personal transformation, opening windows to inner worlds so visitors can better navigate outer ones.

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