{"id":65,"date":"2016-08-16T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2016-09-03T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T03:38:35","slug":"annie-heckman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/annie-heckman\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Tibetan Prayer Wheel and Material Canon at the Royal Ontario Museum<\/h2>\n<h3>Annie Heckman<\/h3>\n<p>PhD student, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>In a third-floor gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, a Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel sits in a tall glass case. The Wimodausis Shop (Wives Mothers Daughters Sisters), run by a Toronto social club raising funds for Word War II, gifted this wheel to the ROM in 1942. While the wheel\u2019s cylindrical silver casing displays a peaceful mantra, the inside holds a text associated with a wrathful protector practice. Although both practices relate to wisdom and compassion in Tibetan Buddhist frameworks, the combination of container and contents is surprising\u2014but only if we subscribe to a standardized canon for material religion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For<em> Sites of Memory<\/em> workshop participants\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/annie-heckman-working-essay\/\">read more<\/a> (password protected)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tibetan Prayer Wheel and Material Canon at the Royal Ontario Museum Annie Heckman PhD student, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto In a third-floor gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, a Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel sits in a tall glass case. The Wimodausis Shop (Wives Mothers Daughters Sisters), run by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}