THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

presents

Gallery Performance and Talk

“The Moment of Dying”

An excerpt from The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud

featuring The Dharma Players with the RMA Guides
Directed by: Duncan Elder and Cindy Sibilsky
Players: Cindy Sibilsky, Duncan Elder, Charlotte Gaspard
Music: Nimai Lawson & Taraka Lawson

Friday, February 26

8:00 PM

The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean Claude van Itallie’s poetic adaptation of the traditional Tibetan Book of the Dead, including passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death.

Each week, members of The Dharma Players will perform various aspects of the Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud. Each fifteen minute vignette will illuminate the traditional text in provocative and intriguing ways, offering visitors a theatrical introduction to the works of art exhibited in Bardo: The Tibetan Art of Death. Following each performance, visitors can further explore the Bardo exhibition with museum guides.

“The Moment of Dying”—Friday, March 5

“Peaceful Energies”—Friday, April 2

“Wrathful Energies”—Friday, May 7

“Rebirth”—Friday, June 4

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART
150 WEST 17 STREET, NEW YORK CITY 1 www.rmanyc.org
212.620.5000 x344

Bardo: The Tibetan Art of the Afterlife

February 12, 2010–September 6, 2010

The transitional states between death and either the attainment of spiritual enlightenment or the return to the cycle of rebirth are explored in Bardo: The Tibetan Art of the Afterlife. For centuries Tantric Buddhism has used tools that aid in the preparation for the hallucinatory visions that appear in the afterlife. Only by recognizing these visions as illusory can buddhahood be attained.