School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS)
CSJR International
Workshop
‘The Life of the Buddha’: A Narrative Genre and
the Image of India in Japan and East Asia
Friday,
31st October 2014, SOAS, University of London, 10:00 AM – 6:30PM
Room B204 (Brunei Gallery)
10:00 Welcome by Lucia Dolce
(CSJR Chair, SOAS)
10:10 – 11:10 Keynote Lecture
Komine Kazuaki (Rikkyō University)
‘The Life of the Buddha’ and
the Image of India in Japan and East Asia:
On the Shakushi genryū (in Japanese)
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Abe Ryūichi (Harvard University)
Revisiting the Dragon
Princess: Her Role in Medieval engi Stories
and Their Implications in Reading the Lotus Sutra
and Their Implications in Reading the Lotus Sutra
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Watanabe Masako
(Gakushūin University)
Illustrations of the ‘Life of the
Buddha’ in Medieval China and Japan
15:00 – 16:00 Kim Youngsoon (Rikkyō University)
The Representation of Māra in the
‘Life of the Buddha’ (in
Japanese)
16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 – 17:30 Suzuki
Akira (Rikkyō University)
“Śākyamuni” and “India” in Sixteenth Century Kyushu: Knowledge
and
Imaginative Power in Peripheral Cultural Centres (in
Japanese)
17:30 – 18:30 Roundtable
18:30
– 19:30 Wine Reception
ALL WELCOME
This event is free and no
registration is required.
For further information on
the event, please contact Tatsuma Padoan tp26@soas.ac.uk or visit www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/events
For directions to the venue
please visit http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/
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Tatsuma PADOAN, PhD
Tatsuma PADOAN, PhD
Newton
Post-Doctoral Fellow (British Academy)
Department
of the Study of Religions
School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh
Street, Russell Square
London WC1H
0XG
UK
Email: tp26@soas.ac.uk
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