Message from rrobinson

[Anonymous]

There's an excellent exhibition of Buddhist art, including mandals, currently on display at the Asia Pacific Museum in Pasadena. Their website also has four terrific illustrated essays on the life of the Buddha and the spread of Buddhism, bodhisattvas, Buddhist sites, and signs, symbols, and ritual objects.

http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/buddhism/html/index.htm

The information can be adapted for the sixth grade unit on Buddhism, and the illustrations make excellent overheads. I try to include one or two pictures in a handout but, as it's a black and white xerox, overhead transparencies bring out the color and subtlety (eventually me and my classroom will get geared up to use a straight-from-the-disc projector, but till then it's twentieth century technology).

This part of the museum website is also a great primer/review of the basics of Buddhism for the educator, and it fits nicely with the content standards.

Ray