Festivals in the City of Angels: Flames of Devotion from festival of lights hindu holiday Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 28 min 50 sec ✓ Published: 13-Nov-2020
Description: In honor of Diwali, the “festival of lights” that celebrates the beginning of the Hindu New Year, scholar Lakshika Senarath Gamage will explore the origins of this holiday and its manifestations in contemporary faith communities. She will also offer her perspective on the design, construction, and use of the spectacular bronze oil lamps in the Fowler’s collection, acquired by the pre-eminent scholar of Indian art in LA. Such oil lamps would have been used in Diwali celebrations to symboliz
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