Karl Aaron Stumpf Travel Award in Art & Art History:
Art History Research Project to Nepal and Tibet, Summer 2002
Heather Cattnach '03
 Heather Cattnach is currently a senior Studio
Art, Art History, and Anthropology student at
Hamline University. She was presented on May 2,
2002 with the Karl Aaron Stumpf Travel Award in
Art & Art History. The award is for travel to a
foreign country. Heather proposed a research
project to Nepal and Tibet for the summer of 2002.
She planned to examine many issues that concern Tibetan Buddhist
art in both countries and to collect field data for her art history senior
thesis paper.
Some of the issues Heather looked at in Nepal were the
differences between older Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and
nunneries, and how they differed from the contemporary Tibetan
Buddhist monasteries and nunneries being constructed. Most
contemporary monasteries and nunneries constructed in Nepal are
commissioned be recent Tibetan refugees due to the Cultural
Revolution (1951-1976) in Tibet. While in Tibet, Heather also
researched how religious buildings were destroyed, as well as, the
issues surrounding the conservation of monasteries destroyed and
damaged during the Cultural Revolution.
Some of the larger issues Heather examined by looking at Tibetan
monasteries were:
What is Tibetan religious art?
What are the sources of style for Tibetan Buddhist art?
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