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Many tulkus, including 14 th Dalai Lama, practiced asceticism in the Kumbum
Monastery (Ta'er), one of the 6 biggest temples of Gelug. I inspected the temple in
where 4,000 monks practiced asceticism, and felt great energy or a sense of many
people's mind flowing inside the temple where many pagodas (stupas) standing.
Tibetans naturally have an idea that the medicine and the philosophy is the same.
Doctors are philosophers, and are Buddhist priests at the same time. I was impressed
by the nature that doctors see what is wrong in patient's heart at first.
Tibetan philosophy has an faith to give freedom to all the afflicted lives. Their
thought is deeply related to consciousness, feelings, the space and lives, centering the
bowels of mercy and wisdom. The cosmic view has to do with our essential problems,
the wheel of life and the existence. Many cultures in Tibet include Buddhist Tantrism
as the appreciation of the idea that life cycles.
South of Xining is Guide (
, which is famous for its hot springs. A 3,800
meters highland is nearby it. We visited a Tibetan tent (yurt), and they offered us
butter named 'tsampa', milk of yak and dishes using barleys. We entered Tongren
(Regon in Tibetan) and crossed a huge dam with a ship.
We went back to Xining and visited Arura Tibetan Medical Center. We discussed
with five people including famous Dr. Denchi, the hierach and Buddhist philosopher,
and Dr. Tanjinja who is nyingma (specialists for sadhana in Tibetan cabala). When we
referred our spirituality of arts and the possibility of fusion between art and
technology, they identified with us and said, “It is a possible idea as one of the figure
of future religion.” This encouraged us so much.
Tibetan Buddhists set the sprit of bodhisattva very important. This means to put off
their tenacity to themselves and self-love, to have altruistic love. I noticed that this
spirit is deeply related into interactive art.
Interactivity in art is shallow and the value is low if the purpose is up to self-
assertive or communication of feeling. What is important is the interaction with
having the sprit of bodhisattva and altruistic love. That is, if computer systems
succeed to interact with having the sprit of bodhisattva, the interactivity of the system
can deeply resonate the high spirit with other people.
I knew in my visit to Tibet that the Buddhism, which was born in India, has stayed
in Tibet adjusting to the climate there and that the global consciousness is remaining
there. I was impressed with the fact that we Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist are able to
understand each other at a deep side of our spirit. I hoped to create something that
Westerners can also understand the Buddhism, as a media expression using
technologies. I just met the Sesshu, which critically affected my artworks after that.
貴徳)
3.5 Meeting the Sansui
I met the Sesshu at the exhibition “Sesshu - special exhibition at 500 th anniversary of
his death” (Kyoto National Museum, 2002). I was fascinated with the world Sesshu
had created. I did not have a special interest in Japanese culture before. For some
reason, the Sansui world of Sesshu in that exhibition seemed a virtual reality which
expressed his heart!
In old China, a Sansui picture was once about a landscape we wanted to watch
forever, a place we wanted to go to play, a place we wanted to live, and a hometown
of our heart in which we wanted to pass away. The Sansui picture is imagined scenery
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