As a world historical and cultural themed, digital panoramic immersive, and multi-dimensional exploratory Zen art exhibition, the Quzhou Tower Immersive Art Museum is centered around the main theme of ‘Karmic Thoughts’. It integrates the local historical and cultural connotations of Quzhou, elaborating on the interdependent origins between the tower and Quzhou, the city and Buddhist culture, Buddhism and humans, and people themselves. The exhibition leads the audience through the worldly ostentation to pursue their inner selves and experience a soul-touching spiritual journey.
On the historical and cultural level, the exhibition sees the bigger picture in the smaller details. Starting from the story of Quzhou Tower and its four cultural elements, it expands to the realm of Buddhist culture and Chinese traditional culture. It deeply integrates with Quzhou’s urban development history as the sacred land of Confucius, highlighting local cultural confidence and the integration and development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. It fully reflects the breadth of historical and cultural dimensions, allowing the spirit of excellent traditional culture to continue and be passed on.
On the value level, the exhibition goes from the bigger picture to the smaller details. It integrates the discussion of socialist core values under the leadership of the Party with the Chinese traditional culture’s aspiration for a good life and the universal values of Buddhist culture, advocating for equality, compassion, wisdom, and kindness. It promotes the transmission of positive energy of truth, goodness, and beauty from the national to the urban to the human level, embedding value guidance in knowledge transfer.
The museum empowers history and culture with art and technology, creating a panoramic immersive cultural display space and a Zen perception space. It is hoped that all those who come to the Quzhou Tower Immersive Art Museum will be able to perceive history, appreciate culture, and gain insight into their inner selves. It also allows Quzhou to be immersed in the influence of traditional historical culture during the process of urban development, inheriting the spirit of excellent Chinese traditional culture and establishing a high level of cultural confidence for Quzhou city.
The immersive light show in the pagoda courtyard, ‘Everything arises from conditions, everything ceases from conditions.’ Amidst the hustle and bustle of life, let us cherish every encounter… The immersive light show in the Mahavira Hall, with the grand scenery of ‘opening, demonstrating, realizing, and entering’ the Dharma and awakening the world, combines multimedia art lighting to interpret the grand Buddhist cultural conception, presenting the beautiful connection between ‘virtue’ and ‘goodness.’ As time goes by, conditions meet, and harmony is born. Every person who comes to the tower is a person with a connection to Quzhou and the tower. Let us preserve this moment and make a connection with this place. All things arise from conditions, and the world should cherish them.
