Richardson Sarah
Lecturer (Limited Term) Religious Studies
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Sarah Richardson enjoys teaching classes big and small about visual and material religion and Buddhism. Sarah recently completed her Phd Thesis entitled "Painted Books for Plaster Walls: Visual Words in the Fourteenth Century Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Shalu" (University of Toronto 2016) and remains particularly interested in relationships between visual images and literary texts in religious art. She is also curating an upcoming exhibition of Tibetan paintings for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Sarah Richardson enjoys teaching classes big and small about visual and material religion and Buddhism. Sarah recently completed her Phd Thesis entitled "Painted Books for Plaster Walls: Visual Words in the Fourteenth Century Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Shalu" (University of Toronto 2016) and remains particularly interested in relationships between visual images and literary texts in religious art. She is also curating an upcoming exhibition of Tibetan paintings for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Research Interest
Relationships between visual images and literary texts in religious art
