Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
<http://stanford.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb62921561a88f331c032bb8&id=539f8c6b1e&e=9445950a78>Richard
Salomon<http://stanford.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfb62921561a88f331c032bb8&id=539f8c6b1e&e=9445950a78>
(University of Washington)
"Retrieving the Buddhist Canon at
Bamiyan"
7:30 pm, Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center (note new
location)
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Evans-Wentz
Lectureship. Co-sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation,
the Department of
Religious Studies, and the Stanford Humanities Center
Bamiyan,
Afghanistan, best known as the site of the enormous Buddha
statues destroyed
by the Taliban in 2001, was also the source of
thousands of fragments of
Buddhist manuscripts, many of which were
rescued and are now being studied
by Buddhist scholars around the
world. Among them are some twenty-five
fragments of an early
manuscript in the Gandhari language of one of the
fundamental
collections of Buddhist sutras, the Ekottarikagama. Professor
Salomon's lecture will describe the process of discovery,
reconstruction, translation and interpretation of this manuscript,
and
its importance for the our understanding of Buddhist history and
literature.
Admission for all events is free and open to the
public
Coming up:
<http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/transmissions-buddhist-architecture-tarim-basin-and-china>
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m.
Susan Whitfield
British
Library
<http://hcbss.stanford.edu/event/transmissions-buddhist-architecture-tarim-basin-and-china>Transmissions
of Buddhist Architecture in the Tarim Basin and
China
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
424
Santa Teresa Street
Stanford, CA 94305
and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8,
2014 AT 1-4 P.M.
