The Minneapolis-based dance group Wattanak performs at a benefit party held at Watt Munisotaram on April 4, 2012. Photograph by Hannah Comstock-Gay.

The interior of the outdoor shrine at Watt Munisotaram, featuring a reclining Buddha (middle) and a Buddha in the Dhyāna Mudrā (pose of meditation). Photograph by Will Yetvin, April 10, 2016. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Buddha statues on a raised platform in an outdoor area of Watt Munisotaram. Photo by Flickr user Coacoabiscuit, June 18, 2022. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Buddha statues in symbolic poses (mudrās) on the lower floor of Watt Munisotaram’s main building. Visible are a Buddha in a Dhyāna Mudrā (meditation pose, at center); a Buddha in a Dharmachakra Mudrā (teaching pose, at left); and a Buddha in an Abhaya Mudrā (fearlessness pose, at right). Photograph by Will Yetvin, April 10, 2016. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The interior of the upper sanctuary in Watt Munisotaram’s main building. Photograph by Will Yetvin, April 10, 2016.

1983—Dave Rusan had never built a guitar. He only repaired them. But now he’d been given the job of a lifetime: to create the iconic cloud guitar used in Prince’s film Purple Rain. Here’s Britt Aamodt.

Excerpt of Prince's "Purple Rain" (1984), from the album of the same name.

Lionel Richie, Apollonia Kotero, and Eddie Murphy at the premiere of the movie Purple Rain, held in Los Angeles on July 26, 1984. Photo by Ellen Jaskol. Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, Department of Special Collections, UCLA Library.

Suit worn by Jellybean Johnson in the movie Purple Rain (1984).