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- PUBLICATION> "Reading Slowly - A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig"
- LECTURE> Marijke Klokke: Imprints of the protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java (Courtauld)
- JOURNAL> Journal of Festive Studies, Call for Submissions (revised): Deadline March 1, 2018
- JOURNAL> Online version of Buddhist Studies Review 34.2 (2017)
PUBLICATION> "Reading Slowly - A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig"
by Jens Wilhelm
Borgland
Dear colleagues,I am very glad to announce to you the publication of the following volume in honour of Professor Jens E. Braarvig on the occasion of his seventieth birthday:
"Reading Slowly - A Festschrift for Jens E. Braarvig," edited by Lutz Edzard, Jens W. Borgland and Ute Hüsken (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag; 2018; ISBN 978-3-447-10964-2).
Although not exclusively devoted to the study of Buddhism, this book contains much of interest to the members of H-Buddhism. The publisher's website—where the volume may also be purchased (https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Reading_Slowly/title_4134.ahtml)—describes the book as follows:
"Reading Slowly contains contributions from a variety of fields as diverse as Buddhist Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Indology, East Asia Studies, Sinology, Classical Studies and Nordic Studies, all focused in some way on the importance of philological scholarship for understanding history, culture, religion, language and law. Although their objects of study, source language(s), media, focus and research questions are different, the essays in this volume are firmly bound together by the philological method –in the broadest sense of the term –and the scholarship of Jens E. Braarvig, whose vast scope of interest and knowledge is reflected in the breadth of this Festschrift. With contributions dealing directly with sources in languages such as Sanskrit, Pāli, Tibetan, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hurrian, Korean, Latin, Greek and Old Norse, preserved on materials such as birch bark and paper manuscripts, clay tablets, wood slabs, printed editions, and modern day street signs, this volume is not only a homage to the breadth of Jens Braarvig's scholarship, but also a demonstration of the importance of language proficiency and philology for the humanities."
The table of contents can be viewed here: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=/ddo/artikel/71633/978-3-447...
Sincerely,
Jens W. Borgland
LECTURE> Marijke Klokke: Imprints of the protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java (Courtauld)
by Giovanni Verri
Wednesday 7 February 2018
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN
Imprints of the
protective goddess Mahāpratisarā across Asia and her role in Java
The
Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London
Speaker: Professor Marijke Klokke - Leiden
University
Organised by: Professor David Park - The Courtauld Institute of Art
Marijke Klokke is professor by special appointment of South
and Southeast Asian Art and Material Culture at Leiden University. After studying
Indian and Iranian Languages and Cultures in Leiden, with a major in the early
history and art history of India and Indonesia, and minors in Old Javanese and
Indonesian, she received her PhD from Leiden University in 1990. She worked as
assistant curator in the Oriental Department of Leiden University Library and
as curator at the Leiden Museum of Ethnology and she has been teaching at
Leiden University since 1991. She has published on the Hindu and Buddhist art
of Indonesia, in particular that of Java. At present her focus is on the art
and architecture of Central Java that flourished in the eighth and ninth
centuries.
During that period, Mahayana Buddhism played a major role in
intercultural exchange throughout Asia. Inscriptions and material culture
demonstrate that Central Java was centrally involved in this cultural contact.
Thus, Borobudur, one of the best-known monuments of Central Java, forms a
visual compilation of Buddhist texts and ideas that were circulating across
Asia among the elite of that time. Less-known pieces of art provide equally
fascinating stories of cultural exchange and local adaptation, as the lecture
will show. It focuses on images of Mahapratisara, a protective Buddhist
goddess, who is the deification of a protective spell. It presents her travel,
in text and image, via the northern Silk Roads over land to China, and via the
southern maritime routes to Indonesia and the Philippines. It highlights images
from Central Java that give us a rare glimpse into the concerns of women in
those days.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in
the Front Hall.
The event is free,
but please, register your participation here: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/imprints-protective-goddess-mahapratisara-across-asia-role-java
A bronze image of
Mahapratisara from Central Java, c. 9th century (copyright: Museum of Ethnology
in Leiden, RV-1630-18)
JOURNAL> Journal of Festive Studies, Call for Submissions (revised): Deadline March 1, 2018
by Cora Gaebel
The Journal of Festive Studies,
a new peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of H-Net (the
interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences
located at Michigan State University), invites submissions for its first issue,
scheduled for Summer 2018.
The
journal’s aim is to draw together all academics who share an interest in
festivities, including but not limited to holiday celebrations, family rituals,
carnivals, religious feasts, processions and parades, and civic commemorations.
The editors in chief -- Dr. Ellen Litwicki, Professor of History at the State University of New York at Fredonia and Aurélie Godet, Associate Professor of US History at Paris Diderot University -- welcome submissions of original research and analysis from both established and emerging scholars worldwide. Besides traditional academic essays, authors may submit video and photo essays, archival notes, opinion pieces, as well as contributions that incorporate digital media such as visualizations and interactive timelines and maps. Academic essays should be between 6,000 and 12,000 words; other pieces should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words. When submitting, please indicate whether the work is to be peer-reviewed as an article or whether you would like to offer something in a different format.
For its first issue, the journal will look at festive studies as an emerging academic sub-field since the late 1960s and seeks submissions that consider some of the methods and theories that scholars have relied on to apprehend festive practices across the world. Prospective authors may explore the specific contributions of disciplines or areas of study including but not limited to history, geography, folklore, sociology, anthropology, ethnology, tourism, media studies, and literature. Alternatively, contributors may choose to focus on some of the methodological issues faced by scholars doing qualitative research on festivities across the globe.
The journal also welcomes submissions that analyze a specific festive occasion.
All texts should be sent by March 1 2018 to submissions-festive-studies@mail.h-net.msu.edu, complete with the author’s bio and an abstract of c. 250 words. Please consult the guidelines for authors (https://networks.h-net.org/node/167585/pages/170680/journal-festive-studies) in advance of submission, and please contact Ellen Litwicki (litwicki@fredonia.edu) or Aurélie Godet (augodet@yahoo.com) for questions concerning the call for papers or suggestions about the journal.
JOURNAL> Online version of Buddhist Studies Review 34.2 (2017)
by Peter Harvey
This
can be viewed at: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/BSR/issue/current
The print copy will be produced in due course and sent to subscribers.
Its content is:
Editorial 149
Peter Harvey
Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda’s Concept and Reality: A Reply to Stephen
Evans 151
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Beyond Class, Only Commentary: Rereading the Licchavis’ Origin
Story in Buddhist Contexts 181
Charles Scott Preston
Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the
‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài Xū and Hsīng Yún 205
Yu-Shuang Yao and Richard Gombrich
Broken Buddhas and Burning Temples: A Re-examination of
Anti-Buddhist Violence and Harassment in South Korea 239
Young-Hae Yoon and Sherwin Vincent Jones
Review Article
Brook Ziporyn’s (Chinese) Buddhist Reading of Chinese Philosophy
259
Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Book Reviews
Reading the Mahāvaṃsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravāda
Buddhist History by Kristin Scheible. 269
Reviewed by Julie Regan
Entering the Stream to Enlightenment: Experiences of the Stages
of the Buddhist Path in Contemporary Sri Lanka, by Yuki Sirimane. 272
Reviewed by Pyi Phyo Kyaw
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan, by
Caitilin J. Griffiths 276
Reviewed by Nathalie Philips
Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan, by Sherry Fowler 279
Reviewed by Ian Astley
