Tibet’s Secret Temple: British Museum objects at Wellcome Collection 

Thank you for shining a light on ancient Tibetan heritage. As a Tibetan I am thankful that your museum is both preserving our at-risk heritage and allowing others access to appreciating it. While we would love to see these back in Tibet where they belong, the reality is that under the long running cultural genocide in Tibet under China, these ancient artifacts would be unsafe.

I was first introduced to this motif of Buddhist Tantric Congress in a bronze displayed in the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum of a Tibetan Guhyasamaja wit the label 密集金刚 (mìjí jīngāng, literarily concentrated thunderbolt). Thanks for explaining this rather curious statuary as the museum had little beyond a simple label.

I really appreciate it Ian. Thank you for keeping Tibetan's artifacts aside and safe. Appreciate ur effort. Keep it up 👆

Wow, it felt like I was inside a cool dark cave and actually visiting a secret temple. Amazing. So peaceful, would have loved to be there in person. Thank you for the amazing experience and your perspective.

Tibetan art is pure & beautiful

remember that the basis for the entire corpus of tantrik teachings is compassion. compassion is the goal. these are all methods toward compassion. none of this matters without compassion.

Excellent Ian !! Thanks for sharing, is there a catalog?

Great filming!

Beautiful, ThankU.

What's the name of the intro music?

Wow. Beautiful

Isn't it Gregg Braden?

I went to this.

I can see a progression of sophistication of thought from Indian, Aseatic/Amero-Indian, & SE Asian tribalistic imagery & beliefs, later e.g. Hindu/Aztec multi-deitied worldviews and complex artistic expressions etc,, but the most advanced of these progressions seems to be the Himalayan cultures. They seem to have developed the understanding of consciousness to a technically high degree while maintaining an artistic tradition to express this understanding that uses elements of ancient animistic styles. Within the limits of a "Comment" the above may sound simplistic, but as a Naturalist I am not engaged with the spritual side; I just find it a pity that many people don't seem to be able to see beyond the "pictures of strange creatures & gods" viewpoint.

TIBETAN CULTURE IS FASCINATING & SACRED. I HOPE THE PEOPLE FROM THE MUSEUM WILL GIVE ALL SACRED OBJECTS BACK TO THE TIBETANS. I HOPE THEY WILL NOT TRY TO KEEP THE FOR ANY REASON, LIKE THEY USE TO DO

Are we allowed to take pictures inside

This is my first time to see this on RU-vid. What is explained on this channel, about tantra is just how the look of the statues is, not the actual meaning or purpose of the deities. He should read and follow explanatory-texts and share the original meaning to the audience instead of opinions. E.g. the deity shows us the angry face because the deity practitioners control and decrease their own anger. And female and male (the deities) are sensual because the full combination of wisdom and compassion which is the ground of Buddha Path. No one likes misunderstandings and wrong views as on this RU-vid channel.

There is nothing strange or something out of the ordinary or is an oddity worthy of mention about the "conventional perverted" concept of sensuality of sexual embrace, without which all the readers and everybody else (including the curator himself) would not have being made to exist!

most of the word he pronounced are sanskrit language. sanskrit originated in hindu culture so i think Hinduism and buddhism are related. two face of a same coin. tantric,garuda mahakala and others are some of the hindu words that he pronounced. thank you

The bones could be yak bones?

Om Ah Houm

I can imagine how frustrating must be for average Tibetan refugee who visit museum and see that stolen precious ritual items belong to our great Dzogchen Masters , how sad that our spiritual world become attraction for tourist in London...

Tantric practices are part of Hinduism; the names of figures you are mentioning like Garuda and Yama are part of Hinduism. Looks like a very half-baked research to me. I was hoping you will get into how tantric practices from Hinduism influenced Tibetan Buddhism and vice-versa. Disappointed this was not covered.

Great items and well described, but it is a pity that Ian Baker cannot pronounce the word 'deity' correctly - it is not pronounced 'dee-it-ee' but 'day-it-ee', this error seems to be most common in the USA and even worse is ocassionally mispronounced 'dee-tee' as in 'D.T'.

These artifacts should be in monastery or in the hand of masters not in museum.

Yam(a) rides buffalo not bull.

благодаря китайцам вся древность тибета по всему миру..такое богатство и это принадлежит тибету..если бы у меня были миллиарды я бы скупила со всего света тибетские прибамбаски и вернула их тибетцам ..учителю

Interesting. Most of this statues and names more likely corresponds to Hinduism. Like en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yama_(Hinduism) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda www.ancient.eu/Kali/

Maybe it’s time to return these objects to the owners …

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I appriciate the atheist view of Chinese communist gov, so I request China please examine Tibetan bhuddhism with rational view and stop destroying these precious centuries old knowledege

Mythical 🤣🤣🤣

The Curator has no idea what he is dealing with. Pompously gibbering words that have no real meaning. He is mixing Ideas and Legends. Just let us see it in detail, instead of seeding your perceptions about something you don't understand.

Unfortunately good movie however give it back to the Tibetan people, it's there spiritual history, I would also be guessing they get none of the monies made by the museum

Travel Tibet and gt over it.

Thieves

THIEVES !!!

Historical objects of tibet are nice but tibetan cultural buddhism is bad buddhism.thiere all kings are buddhist monk in the luxury palace.they eat meat,drink wines and 2_3 qeens.this is bad buddhism.