Christianity and Buddhism share a belief that death is inevitable, universal, and a beginning as much as an end. The Rubin Museum brings together prints, oil and thangka paintings, bone ornaments, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, and ritual items—58 objects in all, spanning 12 centuries—to explore the way art treats death. The exhibition is organized into three parts: the Human Condition; States In-Between (limbo and purgatory); and (After)life, which looks at heaven, resurrection, and transformation. To make peace with the unknown is a challenge each of us must face. —Clara Molot