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SUMMARY:Disciples of a Crazy Saint: Photographing the Buchen of Spiti - Pa
 trick Sutherland (Reader in Photojournalism at the University of the Arts 
 London)
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CONTACT:Claire Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Sutherland (Reader in Photojournalism at the Universit
 y of the Arts London)\n\nThe Buchen of Spiti in the Indian Himalayas are p
 erformers of rituals\, actors and disciples of the fourteenth / fifteenth-
 century "crazy saint" Thang Tong Gyalpo. They are renowned for performing 
 an elaborate exorcism called the Ceremony of Breaking the Stone. They also
  enact a local form of the Tibetan Opera for village audiences. These Budd
 hist morality plays illustrate the principles of karma and ideas of imperm
 anence but also offer a space for uninhibited speech and earthy humour. Ph
 otographer Patrick Sutherland has been photographing the Buchen for many y
 ears. When he recently gave them some prints he was told that they were so
  awful that the performers had torn them up and thrown them in the fire. D
 isciples of a Crazy Saint describes Sutherland's further return to Spiti t
 o investigate Buchen ideas about photography and to negotiate a form of do
 cumentation more appropriate to the Buchen self-image as specialist religi
 ous practitioners.
LOCATION:CRASSH 17\, Mill Lane
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