Dear
list members,
We will be hosting an online seminar via Zoom on 4 June from
6:30pm to 7:30pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney time). To join the
seminar from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android, click the following link:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/91798936739
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Kind regards,
AABS Executive
Buddhist Tantric Poetry:
Frameworks and Practices
The genre of Buddhist tantric poetry, though often misunderstood, has
been a fascinating topic for generations of scholars and practitioners
alike. Its esoteric and mystic character, poetry peppered with puns and
plays, draws on metaphor and analogies as their major mediating tool
through which view and intention is clearly paraphrased from within the
Buddhist tantric path. Referring to, as it seems, commonly shared yogic
practices, this talk will examine the most important literary themes and
religious frameworks underlying those practices.
Dr Julian Schott, who has been teaching Sanskrit this semester at
the Univerity of Sydney, is a Posdoctoral Research Fellow at the Numata
Center for Buddhist Studies (Hamburg University) and at Mahidol
University, Thailand. He has studied Sanskrit, South Asian and Buddhist
Studies in Göttingen (BA) and Hamburg (MA). He completed his doctoral
dissertation within Hamburg's Collaborative Research Cluster about
Manuscript Cultures with a study, edition and translation of Kṛṣṇacaryāpāda's Dohākoṣa commentaries, which makes him one of the few
specialists of tantric poetry written in Apabhraṃśa.
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Gold leaf covered schist reliquary in
the form of a stupa. Kusana period, North Western India. National
Museum, Karachi, Pakistan. Copyright: Huntington, John C. and Susan L.Huntington Archive
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