o Title : Ornamenting and Enshrining the Buddhist Dharma Through advanced Calligraphy
o Date: June 13 - June 26, 2014

The exhibition, Sagyeong: Ornamenting and Enshrining the Buddhist Dharma through Advanced Calligraphy, opens on Friday, June 13 and runs through June 26, 2014.

Sagyeong designates both the manual transcription process of the Buddhist sutras, scriptures of Buddha's short dicta, and the product of this act of transcription. It is comparable to the tradition of manually transcribed religious texts of the Bible in Christianity and the Qu'ran in Islam. Because the process of creating Sagyeong requires intense concentration and strict techniques, it is regarded as the finest guidance to self-discipline. Artistically, it involves literature, iconography and design based on calligraphy; spiritually, it is a pious deed of religious practice for meditating and purifying one's mind in quietude and with devotion.

Through the exhibition, visitors will observe their pure effort and endeavors to restore an almost-disappearing tradition, but also their contemporary reinterpretation of the field. Audience education about the value and modern usage of transcribed sutras is also a very important part of the exhibition.