Alumni Bulletin - Fall 2008 - (Page 26) TaKinG his Message to Heart They came by the thousands, from Lehigh and from around the world, to hear the Dalai Lama’s universal message of love and compassion. And when they returned home, many took with them the words they heard, written on their hearts—and in their lives. a fantastic adventure John Brzostoski’s interest in Tibet can be traced to his childhood. “I actually saw Tibetan paintings when I was 9 years old at the Newark Museum, and they stuck in my head,” says the artist, teacher, and trustee of the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center (TBLC) of New Jersey, which sponsored the Dalai Lama’s teachings at Stabler Arena. Brzostoski first met TBLC founder Geshe Ngawang Wangyal in 1961, and through much of that decade, he taught college courses on Tibetan art and culture at night at the New School for Social Research, New York University, and Cooper Union while teaching high school art by day in New Jersey. “When anybody said Tibet, they also said my name in the next breath,” Brzostoski says. “But things have changed since then.” In his spare time, he also wrote articles for art magazines. It was while covering an exhibition at the Riverside Museum in New York that he made the connection that led to him being named curator of the museum’s Tibetan art collection and writing the catalog for it. His artistic talents were on display at Lehigh, as Brzostoski spent the morning and afternoon teaching sessions sketching the Dalai Lama, as well as the monks and nuns on stage, in pencil and pen. “I’m an artist. I study things so I can share it with students in New York,” he says. Brzostoski first met the Dalai Lama during a trip to India in 1965. But that’s not why he went. “I was off on a one-man mission to save all the Tibetan refugees. Which meant I was slightly crazy,” he recalls. “But it was also a fantastic adventure, going up in the mountains all by myself and getting lost, you name it. I think about it as if I wrote it. You get face to face with the culture when you’re in the mud.” —Jack Croft 26 LEHIGH ALUMNI BULLETIN PHoTo BY DoUGLAS BeNeDICT
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