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Winter Closure

Multiple Danforth campus libraries will be closed and inaccessible to patrons from December 21 until January 2. Read on for more details. 

A small building sits on a mountain peak some distance away.
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John M. Olin Library, Level 1, Kagan Grand Stair

The Life and Legacy of a Himalayan Buddhist Master: Pema Döndrub (1668 –1744)

This exhibition documents research conducted in Nubri at an ethnically Tibetan archive in Nepal, where Anthropology Professor Geoff Childs has been researching since the 1990s. This particular project is the result of a Newman Exploration Travel Fund awarded to Geoff in 2019 and traces the legacy of a Buddhist Lama from Nubri. Jessi Cerutti, exhibitions manager for WashU Libraries, organized this exhibition.

A snow capped mountain at dawn.
A colorful painting of a Buddhist monk sitting in the lotus position.
A Buddhist monk sits on a mountain path in traditional red robes.
An old, dilapidated house built into the side of a mountain.
An old temple sits secluded in the midst of mountains.
A directional carving on a rock.
Anthropology Professor Geoff Childs and others on a backpacking expedition around the Himalayas with Buddhist monks wearing traditional red robes accompanying them.