Eyes on the Sacred: Visual Dimensions of Tibetan Pilgrimage: Tibetan pilgrimage offers a rich site for looking at the intersections of visual culture and art history. It is a space where ritualized movement, sacred geography, and devotional practices meet with the creation and circulation of images. Art historical approaches illuminate the aesthetic, symbolic, and material dimensions of pilgrimage, tracing their historical and stylistic significance of sacred architecture, statues, and ritual objects. Drawing on field observations from Tibet in summer 2025, this lecture explores how pilgrimage is both lived and visually constructed. Pilgrimage involves both the sacred act of looking and the negotiation of being looked at, whether through the respectful eyes of fellow devotees or under the eyes of others. These intertwined practices reveal how pilgrimage in Tibet is not only a journey through sacred space but also a profoundly visual experience shaped by asymmetrical relations of power.