In this talk, held on March 9, 2023, in conjunction with the exhibition "Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection," Georges Dreyfus explains the theory that is behind the deities that one finds on Tibetan Thangka paintings.
Georges Dreyfus spent fifteen years in Buddhist monasteries before receiving in 1985 the title of Geshe, the highest degree conferred by Tibetan monastic universities. He is currently professor of religion of the Department of Religion at Williams College. He has published several books, including The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, and many articles on various aspects of Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan culture.