3rd year students visited the British Library’s Buddhism exhibition this week.
Students standing outside the entrance to Buddhism exhibition at the British Library
Dr Stefan Bauer and Dr Markus Daechsel took 3rd year students focusing on the theme of Belief in our Concepts in History module to visit the British Library’s Buddhism exhibition this week.
The students found the trip really useful and an engaging way to think about religion and belief as seen by their comments below!
"I appreciated the opportunity to take in another culture and way of being that I wouldn’t normally cover, either day-to-day or in my wider studies here. In particular, I found the use of present cultural tropes in contemporary artefacts produced through ancient techniques striking, for its frank departure with Western European representations."
"The main aspect of the field trip that I liked were the relating questions that were given to us so that we didn’t go into the exhibition with a blind eye, and knew what we were looking for. I really enjoyed the exhibition and it definitely helped spark an interest in researching further about Buddhism."
"It was very insightful! I learnt a lot about the artwork, as well as its history, which encouraged further discussion on whether Buddhism is a religion, way of life or philosophy."
For some of the students this was their first visit to the British Library as researchers and they got their first British Library reader's pass in preparation for writing their dissertations.
