"Light Offering in Conclusion of Kalachakra Initiation"

Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India, 200

Hand printed by Olivier Adam

Valued at $200.00

 

Olivier Adam was born in 1969. He is a physicist, graduated from the “ Ecole Normale Supérieure” in Paris, but through the years he has turned to being a photographer. He is now a free lance photographer and a teacher at the photography school Auguste Renoir in Paris. In 2001, his work on the Khmer dance and silk was exhibited at the “Palais de l’Unesco” in Paris. For several years now he has been studying the Tibetan culture and Buddhism, specially attending the Kalachakra classes, taught by His Holiness the Dalai Lama all over the world. He belongs to a humanist tradition and works on personal subjects, mixing both Man and the Sacred. Rituals, women and their universe holding an important place in his photos. He has worked together with Sofia Stril-Rever, Matthieu Ricard and Manuel Bauer on a book called “Kalachakra : un mandala pour la paix”, published in April 2008 by Editions de la Martinière and also the book “Dalai Lama- Appel au monde”published in May 2011 by the editor Le Seuil. Since 2008, he has been closely interested in the lives of the Tibetan nuns in exile. He started this work in five nunneries near Dharamsala and he goes further on meeting former political prisoners-nuns who were granted shelter in the western world. Dakinis, this series on the Buddhist female universe, supplemented by sounds and interviews collected by Dominique Butet, Oliviers’s wife, now extends to the nuns from across the Himalayas.

 

18" x 12” pigment print of museum quality on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper (unmounted)